Wednesday, February 23, 2022

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 268

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. 268

~ Amiss the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason ~

If not hindered nor impaired then awry, askew, amiss the peculiar human ability to reason upon the mitigation or negation of the individual’s burden of responsibility and risk. There are of course the observable, logical therefore sustainable as well ethical considerations (see Proem & Poem Nos. 117-120, 123), as so previously introduced.

Each and every action carries with it the inherent thus unavoidable burden of responsibility and risk, defining since antiquity the natural state of human activity. First, the actor bears the responsibility thus cost of the action by exerting labor and/or expending resource. Second, the actor bears the risk thus outcome of the action by enjoying the increment and/or enduring the detriment.

However on the actor’s behalf, another person may bear responsibility and/or risk, voluntarily if have consented thus acceptant, or coercively if have dissented thus resistant, albeit never negating nor mitigating rather merely transferring the burden. With that said and to state the obvious, it is intellectual whimsy, fantasy even psychosis to contemplate society or human activity without individual burden of responsibility and risk…

It is not difficult to imagine by resorting to force the newly induced overhead thus expenditure of labor and resource, in addition to the moral dilemma per the disregard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, inseparably the disrespect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.

The implication should be made plain. While the forceful transferring of one’s responsibility and risk to another may present obvious dilemmas making difficult if not impossible to maintain postures logical, sustainable, ethical however less noticed the less obvious dilemmas per the peculiar human ability or capacity to reason ill effected. It is also obvious hence quite true the path of least resistance equation as the propensity of reasoning, properly conducted when fully bearing one’s responsibility and risk, however gravely conducted when not fully bearing one’s responsibility and risk.

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Ah, arrogance’s drones hail and prevail on confiscated air
`Hind subsidized podiums too, thus breastplate’d the au pairs
Shielding the covetous glares, the shroud as cloak tent-flaps
Upon socio-rapes across politic-scapes, the fondest of traps

O the covetousness, presumption and the inevitable violence
Hyping as rights others’ possessions, nonesuch the vehemence
Insomuch the fraudulence, so preceding the deceitful polyanthus
Such savoring fragrance for minds susceptible then superfluous

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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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