Midweek Review
Ethics and ‘Banalities’
By Lynn Ockersz
Certainly, Ethics is no ‘banal’ matter,
Since it divides Man from Beast,
And gives the former a purpose,
Nor is it a mere academic matter,
That marks Ivory Tower scholars,
But a thing that needs to be defended,
By getting in the ‘line of fire’,
As was the case with the great Socrates,
Who, for the sake of ethical thinking,
Readily drank of the poisoned chalice.