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injustice (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 hours ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/philosophymemes@quokk.au

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

doing nothing is committing nothing. I can't read the original Latin, so maybe there is a nuance lost in translation, but this is tautologically a falsehood.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 3 hours ago

If a child was drowning in shallow water and you were the only one around to help, I think you would be morally obligated to do you best to save them. Doing nothing would be committing something

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

If you're not a fan of the Gregory Hays translation, you can always go with:

He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing.

Oxford Edition trans. Christopher Gill, https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/9.5/lg

He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

George Long trans. https://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.9.nine.html

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah that’s also a contradiction. You can’t act by inaction.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

the Oxford version also creates a contradiction, and the long translation seems to be saying something else entirely.