Julian Tudor Hart on the absence of natural justice
Apr 22, 01:47 PM
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Julian Tudor Hart was a GP in a former mining village in South Wales for 30 years. His ‘inverse care law’ and his public health work in Glyncorrwg feature heavily in the exhibition. He was interviewed in 2015 by Robert McGibbbon and Sharon Messenger.
I think the College ‘Cum scientia caritas’ is fine, it’s quite a useful idea, but it’s not really very exciting, now. But it seems to me that the idea, if it could be expressed briefly, there is no such thing as natural justice. Natural justice doesn’t exist. Nature is very unjust, we introduce the idea of justice, it’s a human concept, and it has to be implemented like that. We have to create justice, and there’s nothing wrong about that. It’s not saying that we dominate nature in the sense that people did when they were recklessly chucking carbon into the air and so on, it’s something we should be proud of. And the College ought to stand for that, that it wants more justice, you know, illness should be less unjust in its distribution. Sure, eliminate it if you can, then we could address the most difficult problem of all the problems that I can think of, this business about how we die. How we have a time to die, because undoubtedly, we’ve got to move out the way. The people who talk about thousand year lives, things like that, I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous and so immoral. Uh, get out of the way! You know we look at our children, and we want them to take over, they’re better people than us - they so bloody well should be, you know! We’ve done so much work, they’re building on what we did, so shouldn’t they be ahead of us?
I think the College ‘Cum scientia caritas’ is fine, it’s quite a useful idea, but it’s not really very exciting, now. But it seems to me that the idea, if it could be expressed briefly, there is no such thing as natural justice. Natural justice doesn’t exist. Nature is very unjust, we introduce the idea of justice, it’s a human concept, and it has to be implemented like that. We have to create justice, and there’s nothing wrong about that. It’s not saying that we dominate nature in the sense that people did when they were recklessly chucking carbon into the air and so on, it’s something we should be proud of. And the College ought to stand for that, that it wants more justice, you know, illness should be less unjust in its distribution. Sure, eliminate it if you can, then we could address the most difficult problem of all the problems that I can think of, this business about how we die. How we have a time to die, because undoubtedly, we’ve got to move out the way. The people who talk about thousand year lives, things like that, I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous and so immoral. Uh, get out of the way! You know we look at our children, and we want them to take over, they’re better people than us - they so bloody well should be, you know! We’ve done so much work, they’re building on what we did, so shouldn’t they be ahead of us?