Shame, shorn from its theological rock, seemingly melts.
Do unto others what..... Is not sufficient. It is too rational. What happens when the I is asked to make an imaginative leap
Shame is the true basis of ethics.
The discourse around Israel/Palestine is drowned down into rationalist ethic of cause and effect. Imagine a response that considered the fragility of the body, it's seepage and stench, the bewilderment in a child's eye, the question of an unborn foetus, the taste of food covered in blood.
