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The Magistrate

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Tue Dec-19-06 09:44 PM
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78. Right And Wrong, Mr. C., Is The Least Straightforward Thing In The World

If you labor under the handicap of believing questions of right and wrong are simple and settled on widely if not universally shared lines, you have my deepest sympathies. If you are under the impression government is a moral business, in which decisions are made according to dictates of a morality you yurself subscribe to, then a good deal more becomes clear. Government is an amoral occupation, in which the worst suspicions quite rightly fall on those who proclaim their actions to be rooted in, and expressions of, morality.

What, by the way, do find to be the particular signifigance of 1938? It is a big world, and that was a busy year....

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