Friday, July 13, 2007

Charlie C-10

Q:
"...it is inevitable that occasionally cruelty may become a duty; that acts which revolt all our feelings, such as the shooting of hostages or the killing of the old or sick, should be treated as mere matters of expediency; that the compulsory uprooting and transportation of hundreds of thousands should become an instrument of policy approved by almost everybody except the victims;or that suggestions like that of a 'conscription of women for breeding purposes' can be seriously contemplated."
How is that be agreed by the majority?

A:
"...for the mass of citizens of totalitarian state it is often unselfish devotion to an ideal,..."
(Page 165)

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