The Epilogue

Hmm! The collective! Government and its over-extension! The process of de-personalization! The method that divorces action from conscience! Action and conscience together tend to virtue—apart, action has no anchor! Action and conscience together lead to justice—apart, action becomes indiscriminate! Action and conscience together, and I would not kill—but divorce them, and I become a party to mass killing. Why did I not think of these ideas and their meaning? Why did I not think. . . .

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