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title: "Treating People as Things"
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date: 2022-08-03T17:18:48-07:00
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- snippets
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Less a blog post, and more "_something I want to have a persistent addressable record of_". Terry Pratchett has _many_ pearls of wisdom that bear remembering[^1] - this particular exchange takes place between Mightily Oats (a naïve well-intentioned religious missionary) and Granny Weatherwax (the tough embittered rustic crone-witch who will help anyone who needs it, but recognizes that "'good' ain't the same as 'nice'"...)
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(Future similar "posts" that are merely short quotations from literature will be similarly tagged with `#snippets`)
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{{< rawhtml >}}{{< blockquote >}}There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.
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“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
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“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
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“Nope.”
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“Pardon?”
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“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
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“It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
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“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
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“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
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“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”
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{{< /blockquote >}}
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{{< /rawhtml >}}
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[^1]: Indeed, in the commit that introduced this blog post, I reintroduced a [tribute](https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about) to the great man that's been present in all my personal projects... |