Shame, shorn from its theological rock, seemingly melts. Do unto...

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.