June 2011
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
– Voltaire
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Regret.
(I love Camus)
In Albert Camus’ 1950 play Just Assassins, terrorists are at work in nineteenth-century Russia. They kill people, and they all believe that there is a superior moral reason for doing so. But they also know that killing is wrong. In their own view, they are innocent criminals; innocent because their action is justified, but criminals because they kill. So tacitly they conclude...
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