( thoughtful, ) What I mean to say is inaction is a choice. To delay the decision indefinitely is to live in a choice, effectively.
To my eye, what matters mostβ it is more harmful in the long term to very strongly take the position that we may decide any of our number who are harmed against their will may be, through that harm, rendered unworthy of aid. It is right that you should consider your decision, and that you should not be pressed into making one in haste. But I caution you against setting too much emphasis on the idea that you, individually, do not deserve the work that it would take.
You mean to speak for yourself. You mean to speak of pragmatism. What you do say, in doing so, is that it is possible to make any one of us worth less than the others. It is to hand those who harmed you their victory, and in precisely the way they intended it. I ask that you not do their work for them.
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To my eye, what matters mostβ it is more harmful in the long term to very strongly take the position that we may decide any of our number who are harmed against their will may be, through that harm, rendered unworthy of aid. It is right that you should consider your decision, and that you should not be pressed into making one in haste. But I caution you against setting too much emphasis on the idea that you, individually, do not deserve the work that it would take.
You mean to speak for yourself. You mean to speak of pragmatism. What you do say, in doing so, is that it is possible to make any one of us worth less than the others. It is to hand those who harmed you their victory, and in precisely the way they intended it. I ask that you not do their work for them.