March 7, 2011Edward Andrew, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
6 Hoskin Avenue
Toronto ON, M5S 1H8
Dear Mr. Andrew;
Thank you for your email offering to return my book with the excuse that you "do not have time to read it" because you are writing your own.
Something for you to think about.
The morning after I delivered my first rough draft of the Final Corollary along with this book to your establishment’s mail room, I watched a televised broadcast in a Toronto hotel room. I watched a weeping, so-called "ethical", "Supreme Court Justice", named Rosalie Abella, practice the height of hypocrisy. I suggest that you read the re-edited (and still to be edited further) copy of that initial Final Corollary draft. It now incorporates the tale of Abella’s gross idiocy, when it comes to "ethics" in my nation.
Then think about this.
I walked by "signs of the cross" to deliver my book into the office that said they could deliver the book to you. Despite my appeals to the likes of e-mails of the United Church of Canada ((of) which I was once a member) and the Anglican Church of Canada (which my children attended, primarily upon the insistence of my spouse, after I began to dare say that archaic religious institutions no longer bear any credibility when it comes to "ethical conduct"), who were the first people to insist that I stop sending them e-mails about my arrest about a politicized letter? This book makes short record that it was first the Anglicans and then the United "christians" who demanded that I stop sending them my petitions.
"Ethics"?
It is ironic that you "do not have time". During training as a government employee, I was told this by a "time management" instructor. It is never that we do NOT have time for any one thing. It IS that we make something a lower priority.
So, my suggestion to you becomes this.
You are supposedly in a "college" that promotes itself as an esteemed expert in what is "ethical". Your excuse is that you are "writing your own book". This becomes your excuse as I wander across this nation and, in five minutes of explanation, recruit new citizens or touch base with old acquaintances who say that this book of mine will be made a priority for them to read. Because I express the undercurrent of anger in this nation.
So, your dilemma, and indeed the dilemma of your supposedly "esteemed" part of our society becomes this.
Do you make your own perception of our world your priority to the ignorance of what brews and stews around you in the real world? Does "your book" remain your priority in your days of allocated time? Do you attend the opera or concerts, squash courts, television programs or, indeed, even engage in hours of religious self-enlightenment, if that is your "priority", and then suddenly become overwhelmed when Canadians rise like the common Libyans and Egyptians did, much to the surprise of the privileged and the entrenched?
What does it take for ethical enlightenment in the real world, Mr. Andrew? Education to our world’s realities faced by citizens across even this nation? Or your dithering and self-promoting blathering that hides you and your cohorts from this nation’s realities?
IF you do NOT have 6 hours time to read the enclosed correspondence AND this story about what ails this nation and credible democracy (I do not care IF you read Parts II & III), then I hope that you will make it YOUR priority to find someone in your "institution of ethics" to read and assess the merit of this story.
OR the danger becomes that your institution becomes the laughing stock of a nation itching for credible change and a return to the ethical conduct which your institutions of higher learning have so sadly failed us all in.
Simply because the real story is shoved aside for the sake of your own priorities.
And, that, kind sir, is not just unethical. In real democracy, it becomes blatant arrogance and stupidity.
I trust that this book WILL NOT be returned to me AND that someone in your "prestigious" "ethical" institution will read the story for its merit alone as an instrument to start the debate on where even your institutions have failed us, the citizens of this nation. I suggest that you read the enclosed correspondence in view of the daily violation of ethical conduct that carries into all parts of our society. Yes, even into those parts of our societies where "the races" have much right to righteous anger but who should have learned the lessons to ethical conduct even more readily.
Because of the history of what they endured.
That does not then justify unethical conduct among any of them.
Thank you for your time, again
Don MacAlpine
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
6 Hoskin Avenue
Toronto ON, M5S 1H8
Dear Mr. Andrew;
Thank you for your email offering to return my book with the excuse that you "do not have time to read it" because you are writing your own.
Something for you to think about.
The morning after I delivered my first rough draft of the Final Corollary along with this book to your establishment’s mail room, I watched a televised broadcast in a Toronto hotel room. I watched a weeping, so-called "ethical", "Supreme Court Justice", named Rosalie Abella, practice the height of hypocrisy. I suggest that you read the re-edited (and still to be edited further) copy of that initial Final Corollary draft. It now incorporates the tale of Abella’s gross idiocy, when it comes to "ethics" in my nation.
Then think about this.
I walked by "signs of the cross" to deliver my book into the office that said they could deliver the book to you. Despite my appeals to the likes of e-mails of the United Church of Canada ((of) which I was once a member) and the Anglican Church of Canada (which my children attended, primarily upon the insistence of my spouse, after I began to dare say that archaic religious institutions no longer bear any credibility when it comes to "ethical conduct"), who were the first people to insist that I stop sending them e-mails about my arrest about a politicized letter? This book makes short record that it was first the Anglicans and then the United "christians" who demanded that I stop sending them my petitions.
"Ethics"?
It is ironic that you "do not have time". During training as a government employee, I was told this by a "time management" instructor. It is never that we do NOT have time for any one thing. It IS that we make something a lower priority.
So, my suggestion to you becomes this.
You are supposedly in a "college" that promotes itself as an esteemed expert in what is "ethical". Your excuse is that you are "writing your own book". This becomes your excuse as I wander across this nation and, in five minutes of explanation, recruit new citizens or touch base with old acquaintances who say that this book of mine will be made a priority for them to read. Because I express the undercurrent of anger in this nation.
So, your dilemma, and indeed the dilemma of your supposedly "esteemed" part of our society becomes this.
Do you make your own perception of our world your priority to the ignorance of what brews and stews around you in the real world? Does "your book" remain your priority in your days of allocated time? Do you attend the opera or concerts, squash courts, television programs or, indeed, even engage in hours of religious self-enlightenment, if that is your "priority", and then suddenly become overwhelmed when Canadians rise like the common Libyans and Egyptians did, much to the surprise of the privileged and the entrenched?
What does it take for ethical enlightenment in the real world, Mr. Andrew? Education to our world’s realities faced by citizens across even this nation? Or your dithering and self-promoting blathering that hides you and your cohorts from this nation’s realities?
IF you do NOT have 6 hours time to read the enclosed correspondence AND this story about what ails this nation and credible democracy (I do not care IF you read Parts II & III), then I hope that you will make it YOUR priority to find someone in your "institution of ethics" to read and assess the merit of this story.
OR the danger becomes that your institution becomes the laughing stock of a nation itching for credible change and a return to the ethical conduct which your institutions of higher learning have so sadly failed us all in.
Simply because the real story is shoved aside for the sake of your own priorities.
And, that, kind sir, is not just unethical. In real democracy, it becomes blatant arrogance and stupidity.
I trust that this book WILL NOT be returned to me AND that someone in your "prestigious" "ethical" institution will read the story for its merit alone as an instrument to start the debate on where even your institutions have failed us, the citizens of this nation. I suggest that you read the enclosed correspondence in view of the daily violation of ethical conduct that carries into all parts of our society. Yes, even into those parts of our societies where "the races" have much right to righteous anger but who should have learned the lessons to ethical conduct even more readily.
Because of the history of what they endured.
That does not then justify unethical conduct among any of them.
Thank you for your time, again
Don MacAlpine
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