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New prisoner-related content ceased to be added in February 2014, as upon further reflection, Larson considered that his giving in, on 7 December 2012, to pressure to tell the judge what he wanted to hear (viz. that those who communicate with felons in violation of their terms of supervised release are at fault for their own incarceration), rather than taking a principled stand similar to the one Oscar Wilde took while being cross-examined in ''[[wikipedia:Oscar_Wilde#Regina_v._Wilde|Regina v. Wilde]]'', disqualified him from doing further prisoner solidarity work, as it constituted an unforgivable betrayal of the values of integrity and courage required of such a worker. The giving in to the pressure had resulted from Larson's mother expressing loneliness at his absence, which put Larson in a position of having to choose between standing for his political beliefs or provoking the court to impose a punishment that would cause his family additional suffering. | New prisoner-related content ceased to be added in February 2014, as upon further reflection, Larson considered that his giving in, on 7 December 2012, to pressure to tell the judge what he wanted to hear (viz. that those who communicate with felons in violation of their terms of supervised release are at fault for their own incarceration), rather than taking a principled stand similar to the one Oscar Wilde took while being cross-examined in ''[[wikipedia:Oscar_Wilde#Regina_v._Wilde|Regina v. Wilde]]'', disqualified him from doing further prisoner solidarity work, as it constituted an unforgivable betrayal of the values of integrity and courage required of such a worker. The giving in to the pressure had resulted from Larson's mother expressing loneliness at his absence, which put Larson in a position of having to choose between standing for his political beliefs or provoking the court to impose a punishment that would cause his family additional suffering. | ||
Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in the terminology of Harris Mirkin,[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm] a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. | Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in the terminology of Harris Mirkin,[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm] a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. According to this view, allocution is often the activist's one chance to speak in court in defense of his ideas and actions, and the whole nature of the situation is to serve as a test of whether he has enough backbone to rise to the occasion when called upon. Vlad Draconis PenDragon (aka Matthew Mercer-Kinser) compared it to a situation of a homeowner's declining to tell the Gestapo about Jews hiding in his attic, but Larson viewed his statement to the court as more analogous to Erwin Schrödinger's 1938 ''[http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer Confession to the Führer]''. | ||
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