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A small plant

  • The 11-year-old has died following an accident. It plays with the ball and at any given moment it hits a plant and destroys it. It's a small, thick leaf plant that lives in a stitch. He picked up the ball. He wrote a note on a paper and left it on the floor. And it's gone.

25 September 2020 - 13:25

When the plant caregiver arrives, go and take the piece of paper. There is a five-euro banknote on paper. He read the note on paper. He looked at the floor and looked at the sky. Until you realize that you have the lost view beyond the horizon. It holds the tears. He looked back at the plant.

Giovanni Grandi is a neighbor of the plank. This is a professor. Taught at the University of Padua two subjects “Theoretical and historical foundations of philosophical anthropology” and “Analysis of conflict, forms of justice and remediation practices”. He is currently a professor at the University of Trieste, in the department of Political and Social Sciences, and a professor of Moral Philosophy.

The vegetarian, Giovanni's neighbor, has taught him the piece of paper he has found on the plant. Two, three times you have read the text on the same page. He looked in the eyes of his neighbor and he could not hold the tears.

When he calmed down, the professor said: “You can only start my next course in Public University Ethics.”

The note that the child wrote on the edge of the paper reads as follows: “Hi, I’m sorry for the floor: I accidentally played a soccer ball. Here are five euros for damages.” He's wearing a signature underneath.

The ability to take care of and take responsibility for others and to explain this attitude in favour of a solution should be underlined. But all this for a plant, for a plant! What would we do if we were in place?

Here's the most important part: a plant. Even if it was the largest tree, it would be no more than a plant for most. Nothing, let alone what the euro does not deserve.

Once it occurred to me that in one of the works being carried out by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the trees and trees next door were damaged and I had to go on behalf of the city council that owned them to talk about the repair with the engineer of the work. The proud engineer told me. “The damage of these trees? Please, we make roads!”


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