IF CONSCIENCE FALLS SILENT...
"... The greatest and most grievous affliction of our age and humanity, the very disease, the veritable CORONA, the PLAGUE, and the cause of utter ruin and devastation...
Nowadays, it has been subjected to much erosion, exploitation, deformation...
And above all, to murders, violations, and destruction...
The issue, the essence of the matter, is CONSCIENCE, CONSCIENCE...
When you say CONSCIENCE... It demands pause, reflection with sensitivity, and true, genuine ownership...
It is a virtue unique to TRUE HUMANITY, a virtue...
A VIRTUE UNIQUE TO TRUE HUMANITY...!
You must think deeply with values, dignity, and justice...!
If conscience falls silent, humanity is slaughtered, left in ruins amidst desolation, humanity and humankind in utter misery...
Conscience... It is neither a mere concept, a phenomenon, nor a cheap label or definition, nor a human name, CONSCIENCE...!
It is the question of humanity’s and civilizations’ existence or extinction, continuance or termination, life or death, and ultimately...
The erasure from the pages and stages of history, painted black with the shame and disgrace of humanity, from past to future...
It is the heralding of humanity’s catastrophe...
THE HERALDING OF CATASTROPHE...!
In other words, CONSCIENCE is the matter of humanity, the human matter of humankind...!
CONSCIENCE... To deliberately and willfully abandon one’s own child, with cruelty at the crossroads of life, is worse than the worst of fates...
Or to leave it to the whims and choices of those drunk or poisoned with power...
If this is utterly unacceptable and undeniable, CONSCIENCE, too, is not a concept, a phenomenon, a value, or an issue to be held lightly, pushed aside, ignored, or dismissed...!
That is the matter...
If it is about CONSCIENCE and humanity, the flowing waters must stop, they must...!
It is the outright SLAUGHTER of humanity, the usurpation of the right to life...
And worse, it is the violation and destruction in the agora of the blind...
In short, for humanity and humankind, CONSCIENCE is the lifeline, the jugular vein, and its source, its homeland, is the HEART, the HEART...
Just as brain death hastens the final death when the heart stops...
When consciences are murdered, the dynamics of humanity and society are destroyed, and the right to life is taken away with brutality and arrogance...
In essence, CONSCIENCE is the very essence of humanity, THE VERY ESSENCE...!
In short, the crux of the matter...
When you say CONSCIENCE...
WHEN YOU SAY CONSCIENCE... It is the most indispensable virtue, to be contemplated with sobriety, sensitivity, and the genuine integrity of true humanity...!
And with it...
To think deeply with values, dignity, and justice...
That is why, when you say CONSCIENCE, with historical and human responsibility, with justice, you must think like a human, with humanity...!
Deny this not, know it with conviction, and never forget...
Humanity and humankind will fall into ruin, IF CONSCIENCE FALLS SILENT...
IF CONSCIENCE FALLS SILENT...!
Mualla SEZGÖR YASSIBAŞ / İSYANİ
