When people are required to look at something they more easily see its flaws. I write, and some times very quickly. Electric typewriters were high tech when I was young, and I may have passed typing with a D-.. With word processing computers my speed has increased greatly, and with practice, my spelling as well. But even with your spell checker, I make mistakes, and I want people to hear what I say without looking too closely at how I say it. But Thank you. You are all decent and kind.
Try to understand it as the Greeks did, of the two forces which bind humanity. One is Ethos, that like Ethnic, binds a person to his own, his family, his tribe, his phratry, his city. And the other force is Pathos, which binds all people as human beings, that we feel in some real sense the suffering (or the joy) of others, and act in sympathy with them.
There is in the heart of every child the shock of seeing Jesus represented on the cross with his skin bloody and torn, and with a crown of thorns upon his head. And the child revolted asks: Who did this to this man? They never believe that it was you and I, and only later do they realize it is true. While some celebrate that fact, others see it with the deepest shame and pain. This is our crime. This is a stain upon our souls and a weight against our hearts.
Where is the man suffering pain and death who can complain: This is not my fate, and I do not deserve this. I have done enough in one life to deserve every rotten thing that will ever happen to me, but at least my guilt is my own. I do not have to share that guilt with anyone, and so my suffering, such as it is, is my justice. But that is enough, and no one should have to bear the guilt of others because they were allowed, organizationally, because the machine, -the relentless, heartless, automaton of bureaucracy worked its way through a moral loophole like a rat into a house of harvest.
Thanks...Sweeney
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