PROEM & POEM No. 23 - To Reason Is Human / 1st Reprise
So indistinguishable is the human and the ability to reason, it is imperative to elaborate a bit further. The most unreasonable or disagreeable person, the most foolish as well outright foolhardy, the most stubborn, the most stingy, the most self-destructive, the most suicidal, is no less reasonable, that is to say, has no less ability to reason than a person most agreeable, most wise, most prudent or cautious, most constructive, most compatible, most charitable, most self-preserving, etc. A person reasonable is one merely possessing the ability to reason. Differently, simply, a person reasonable is a person human, again to reason is human.
Is it so difficult to qualify all actions as driven by self-interest, that is to say, motivated by perceived benefits whether seen as such or not by others, whether actually so or not by outcomes. Self-destructive actions too are chosen per some understood or misunderstood preference over alternatives. These unfortunate decisions are no less reasonable over those seen as less harmful to self or others, hence the ever-present state ability to reason.
True, it would be remiss to overlook the human instinct also ever-present from womb to tomb, powerfully so however subjected only to and subjugated solely by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.
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So indistinguishable is the human and the ability to reason, it is imperative to elaborate a bit further. The most unreasonable or disagreeable person, the most foolish as well outright foolhardy, the most stubborn, the most stingy, the most self-destructive, the most suicidal, is no less reasonable, that is to say, has no less ability to reason than a person most agreeable, most wise, most prudent or cautious, most constructive, most compatible, most charitable, most self-preserving, etc. A person reasonable is one merely possessing the ability to reason. Differently, simply, a person reasonable is a person human, again to reason is human.
Is it so difficult to qualify all actions as driven by self-interest, that is to say, motivated by perceived benefits whether seen as such or not by others, whether actually so or not by outcomes. Self-destructive actions too are chosen per some understood or misunderstood preference over alternatives. These unfortunate decisions are no less reasonable over those seen as less harmful to self or others, hence the ever-present state ability to reason.
True, it would be remiss to overlook the human instinct also ever-present from womb to tomb, powerfully so however subjected only to and subjugated solely by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.
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Ochlocratically finessed, cruel no less when dispossessing
More oft willful the ethical as well economical abscessing
Expressing by twisting so to confiscate per social justice
To covet as a right, while in fists olive-branch and cutlass
More oft willful the ethical as well economical abscessing
Expressing by twisting so to confiscate per social justice
To covet as a right, while in fists olive-branch and cutlass
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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