Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated: "It clearly takes greater savagery to kill a defenseless human being when one looks into his face than when one never sees him" [Dec. 5]. I seem to remember that Eichmann and other administrators of the "final solution" had little taste for witnessing the outcome of their executive orders. If only because the authority for acts of state ultimately resides in the broad consent of the people, we must apply to ourselves the same rule that we have with such grave innocence applied to criminals of war in the past. If animals did what we accuse these...