a lesson from Nuremberg
Little
tidbit from the Nuremberg trials that took place after World War 2 I came across the other day and thought you’d be interested to see Jim.
“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have the legal capacity to give consent;
should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion;
and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”
This is comes directly from
Trials of War Criminals Before The Nuremberg Military Tribunals, Volume 2, The Medical Case.
In other words,
after one of the most horrific events ever enacted to a substantial portion of
an entire population in modern history…
these are the standards we all got together and decided it
would be a good idea to hold those in power accountable to pertaining to medical issues going forward.
Do you have an opinion on whether or not these standards are being upheld, present day?
Looking through this very well done
"The Scary Germ" and Cancer - What You Need To Know document my friend Nathan Crane put together for his upcoming Conquering Cancer event…
from the
timeline of how this thing was rolled out and updates to safety data along the way, to
lessons learned from past recalls, to common
ingredients linked to cancer, to
documented injuries going off the charts in recent months
contained in this document…
Has the effort to help people “make an understanding and enlightened decision” been genuine?
Now that entire classes of the population are
faced with losing their jobs, right to travel and conduct commerce…
how are we doing on avoiding any “ulterior form of constraint or coercion?”
No matter where anyone stands on whether people “should” or “should not” go through with the issue present day…
I think it would behoove us all to take a big step back, take a look at fairly recent history,
and ask ourselves how far we’re willing to go with this.
I can’t begin to describe how terrifying it was to realize
we had lost our freedom to choose what’s best for our child
when Ryder was diagnosed with stage four cancer seven years ago, and what an overwhelmingly joyous day it was when we managed to get it back…
but now I fear
UNLESS we can collectively decide what is ULTIMATELY most important, we’ll all be headed back down that same road together.
IMPORTANT NOTE to not end on an overly gloomy tone - I have the utmost confidence that nothing is set in stone.
The word
UNLESS was capitalized for a very important reason, as it’s
from one of the most profound quotes from a children’s book ever to be written,
The Lorax by Dr. Suess.
“And all that the Lorax left here in this mess was a small pile of rocks,
with one word… UNLESS. Whatever that meant, I just couldn’t guess…
Now that
you’re here, the word of the Lorax seems
perfectly clear.
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better, it’s not.”
The Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, and The Sneeches have never been more prescient and should be read and thoroughly explained to children, often…
and of course, can’t leave out Oh The Places You’ll Go if we want them to reach their full potential in general.
Definitely
pick up Nathan’s guide as well!
Straightforward, empowering information on everything I listed above as well as
things to be doing on the natural side that have never been more important!
Ryan