{"id":3287,"date":"2019-07-05T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2020-01-15T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T22:21:25","slug":"poem-a-dubiously-fresh-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/poem-a-dubiously-fresh-pickle\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: A Dubiously Fresh Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They effaced a moral dilemma<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Support human rights<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or economic favor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A dubiously fresh pickle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In a blue moon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That hoary question<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of prophets verses<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Profits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And what they seed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Their lukewarm revelation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hallowing out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What we may no<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Knot about moral clarity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Only sow sow doubt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Will-Work-For-Human-Rights-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Will-Work-For-Human-Rights.gif\" alt=\"Will Work For Human Rights POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Human-Rights-Anti-Terrorism-that-Works-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/ProductImages\/political\/15-Human-Rights-Anti-Terrorism.gif\" alt=\"Human Rights: Anti-Terrorism that Works -- POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>I wrote this poem today in response to the huge Saudi Arabia arms deal the the U.S. and Canada are promoting despite massive human rights violations and allegedly inconvenient profiting off these arms deals. I am sick and tired of the endemic moral confusion between choosing human rights and profit. The surreal moral equivalence and equivocation of human rights and profits betrays, at best, a pathetic understanding and\/or commitment to moral living, and, perhaps more likely, illustrates a habitual tolerance for evil in service of personal gain or national profit. Subjecting human rights to a sketchy marketplace for an assignment of value is an abdication of both personal and social responsibility, and a life-threatening confusion between good and goods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Human-Rights-Are-Not-Optional-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Human-Rights-Are-Not-Optional.gif\" alt=\"Human Rights Are Not Optional POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Human-Rights-NOW-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Human-Rights-NOW.gif\" alt=\" Human Rights NOW POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Globalize-THIS-HUMAN-RIGHTS-earth-graphic-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Globalize-THIS-HUMAN-RIGHTS-earth-graphic.gif\" alt=\"Globalize THIS - HUMAN RIGHTS [earth graphic] POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They effaced a moral dilemma Support human rights Or economic favor A dubiously fresh pickle In a blue moon That hoary question Of prophets verses Profits And what they seed Their lukewarm revelation Hallowing out What we may no Knot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/poem-a-dubiously-fresh-pickle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,57,9,15],"tags":[87,577,392,122,305,359,155,766,658,94,17,567,409,67,129,203],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-war","category-peace","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-capitalism","tag-economic","tag-evil","tag-human-rights","tag-humanity","tag-life","tag-moral","tag-national","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-prophet","tag-responsibility","tag-surreal","tag-terrorism","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: A Dubiously Fresh Pickle | Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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