In the Song of Roland, or Orlando Furioso, the mad were considered to be under the special protection and favor of God. So if you found someone muttering to himself in the forest (as Roland was after he lost his love), you would be kind to him, or feed him, or leave him be
This saved me
When I think of the sacrifices that have been made in the name of science (“well we know not to do THAT any more”) something from the bottom of me rises up and says “NO” How did you not know not to do that in the first place. I remember standing on the Hopi reservation and a missionary was passing out pamphlets explaining that sexual abuse was wrong. “They don’t know that it’s wrong” he said. How do you not know it’s wrong? No one needs to tell you it’s wrong for you to know it’s wrong. And science… Keeps coming up with weirder drugs and weirder “treatments” when what we really need is a hug. Who doesn’t know that? Who needs decades of research and data to find out not to create offenses against humanity and put them in people. Bah Science.
In the Song of Roland, or Orlando Furioso, the mad were considered to be under the special protection and favor of God. So if you found someone muttering to himself in the forest (as Roland was after he lost his love), you would be kind to him, or feed him, or leave him be
This saved me
When I think of the sacrifices that have been made in the name of science (“well we know not to do THAT any more”) something from the bottom of me rises up and says “NO” How did you not know not to do that in the first place. I remember standing on the Hopi reservation and a missionary was passing out pamphlets explaining that sexual abuse was wrong. “They don’t know that it’s wrong” he said. How do you not know it’s wrong? No one needs to tell you it’s wrong for you to know it’s wrong. And science… Keeps coming up with weirder drugs and weirder “treatments” when what we really need is a hug. Who doesn’t know that? Who needs decades of research and data to find out not to create offenses against humanity and put them in people. Bah Science.