Wednesday, December 1, 2021

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 222

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 222

~ Qui Tacet Dissentire Videtur ~

At core of arguments favoring social contracts is the matter of consent not by each and every individual, rather as a presumed societal whole. Rarely proposed as ethically fundamental is unanimous consent, for conveniently, expediently promulgated the combination of consent explicit as well implicit, tacit hence participation noncontentious; qui tacet consentire videtur or silence implies consent.

At this juncture, it is imperative to point out the human paradox. For if arguments for particular social contracts and/or political isms are unbearable, intolerable even unfavorable, undesirable then hairs on back of neck rise involuntarily else immediately ever defiantly, while the mind determines instantly, logically the necessity for unanimous consent at most, at least one’s own consent.

 However if arguments for particular social contracts and/or political isms are desirable, favorable even tolerable, bearable then hairs on back of neck remain undisturbed, relaxed, while the mind carries on toward secondary thus subsequent concerns.

In the former case, it is irrelevant whether one explicitly communicates to others, for dissent nonetheless the opinion, posture, preference, sentiment, emotion even passion. The noncommunicant or silent person is neither without thought ever changing nor opinion ever altering per his/her peculiar ability to reason ever evaluating. Consequently to assume a person’s noncommunication or silence as equaling to a particular conclusion such as consent, cannot be anything other than presumption, arrogance motivated by covetousness. 

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Force; the covetousness perfectly bloomed in colors of blood
Introrsely the presumptuousness upon the impassioned floods
Clouds o’er reddish mud, aft’ fiery pillars then smoky plumes
Per society’s killers onto the twilight-dance in polity’s ballroom

Elitists’ jollity although drollery, as commoners prance in line
Dance in kind per trance like-mind, askance, constant, till benign
Bovines stilled, canines reeled upon the Pavlovian convenience
The usual expediency, insomuch the subsidy unto obedience

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

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