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𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑢𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑢 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑟𝑎 𝑑𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑙ℎ𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑜 𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑖 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙. 𝑆𝑒 𝑛𝑎̃𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒́𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑒𝑚 𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑜 𝑎 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎, 𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑗𝑎́ 𝑠𝑜𝑎. 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑠 𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑜 𝑒́ 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎́𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑙. 𝐸 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑗𝑎 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑎 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑚 𝑚𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠.

𝑂𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑆𝑎̃𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎̃𝑜 𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑖 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝐹𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢, 𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑠 𝑒 𝑑𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑟. 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑎, 𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑖𝑥𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑎: 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑒 𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑖́𝑐𝑖𝑜 𝑑𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 𝑜 𝑛𝑢́𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒́𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐̧𝑎𝑠 𝑒 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒.

𝐹𝑜𝑖 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎̃𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑢 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑖: 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑛𝑜́𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑢 𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐̧𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑚 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑎̃𝑜. 𝑁𝑜𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎̃𝑜𝑧𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑠, 𝑎𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜-𝑙ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑒𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜̃𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒́ 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑧 𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑜 𝑣𝑖́𝑟𝑢𝑠, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑛𝑎̃𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎̂𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎́𝑣𝑒𝑙.

𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑖𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐̧𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑙? 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑖𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑙𝑖́𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑚 𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖́𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑠? 𝑁𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙, 𝑒𝑚 𝑆𝑎̃𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑜, ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜́𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐̧𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑚 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑛𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎̃𝑜𝑠 𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟, 𝑛𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒̂𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, 𝑝𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑔𝑎̃𝑜 𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑎 𝑠𝑎̃𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑠.

𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑒𝑢 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑣𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎 𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑎́𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑢𝑚 𝑝𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑑𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎́𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑒𝑙𝑎. 𝐴𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑒𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑎, 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑎 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑧 𝑓𝑜𝑖 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑒 𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒, 𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑎 𝑒𝑙𝑎: 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑒𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑎. 𝑂𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑚 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑎 𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑧, 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑢, 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑣𝑎 𝑒𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎̃𝑜𝑠. 𝑆𝑒𝑢 𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑎 𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐̧𝑎̃𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑖 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑒 𝑒𝑢 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑖 “𝑛𝑜́𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜́ 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜́𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑑𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎̀𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐̧𝑎𝑠”.

𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎, 𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜́𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎 𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑎 𝑑𝑜 𝑎́𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑜𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑠. 𝑆𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑜, 𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑑𝑒. 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑒́ 𝑢𝑚𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎̂𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎́𝑣𝑒𝑙, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑎 𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑠𝑎 𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑎, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑐̧𝑜̃𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑠 𝑜𝑙ℎ𝑜𝑠, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎 𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑠 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑠… 𝐸𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑚, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑛𝑎̃𝑜 𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑜. 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎́𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑠 𝑡𝑎̃𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑠 𝑛𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒̂𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎, 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑠 𝑜́𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎. 𝐹𝑎𝑐̧𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜 𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠.

* Advogada, escritora, professora universitária brasileira

IN "OBSERVADOR" - 09/10/21

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