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@joseph_gaglione Evelyn Underhill: "Shall we ever see life truly until we see it with the poet's eyes?" Mohammed (Sal.): "God hath treasures beneath the Throne, the keys whereof are the tongues of poets."

God damn. What a start to the piece the Harvard Law Review refused to run. Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling. Clearly, it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.
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God damn. What a start to the piece the Harvard Law Review refused to run. Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling. Clearly, it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.