(July 7, 2024 at 12:50 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Sometimes, we need to remind these youngsters of a poem written 80 years ago or so
Quote:First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
by Pastor Martin Niemöller
There's also this:
Donne Wrote:No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
I don't know if that member really has an absence of empathy, or if he's jut trying to edgelord things. He doesn't strike me as the thoughtful type in either event.