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Who should we kill?

A meditation on #MargaretSanger's mal mot, "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

[From M. Sanger, Women and the New Race (1920).]
Oddly, I grew up thinking that mercy granted life, extended life, ameliorated pain or difficulty, removed unjustly imposed restrictions on liberty.

You know what I mean. You've granted mercies to others.

They arrived late after you labored to prepare a meal.
They failed to take care and caused damage to property, knocking over a lamp or running into your rear bumper.

Thousands of small acts of thoughtlessness or lack of self-awareness intrude on our peace, our contentment.
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#HistoireDesParisTéméraires
Rome, 1587. Un certain Paolo Secchi, négociant international, reçoit une lettre qui l'informe que Francis Drake, amiral de la reine Elisabeth, a mis à sac la ville de Saint-Domingue dans l'empire d'Espagne, prenant un énorme butin.
Secchi s'empresse de communiquer la nouvelle à Sanson Ceneda, un juif avec qui il est en relation. L'attaque de Saint-Domingue est fâcheuse pour Ceneda ; il s'acharne à nier la nouvelle. "Je parie une livre de la chair de mon corps que c'est faux". Secchi rétorque :
"Je parie 100 écus qu'elle est vraie". Ils appellent 2 témoins, un chrétien et un juif, et rédigent les conditions du pari. Si la nouvelle est vraie, Secchi pourra "couper avec un couteau bien affuté une livre de la chair de ce juif à l'endroit qui lui conviendra." Ils signent.
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