Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devil's Role...
...growing life in artificial wombs, for instance, or even rearranging enough molecules to create life itself, man will invoke comparison to the legendary Faust. He attained the power to create life?the tiny test-tube man, or homunculus?but only after he had bartered away his soul to the devil. If the new knowledge is used recklessly, Faustian man of the future may wonder if he, too, has not made a pact with dark forces...
...More: Yes. What could you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil...
...More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then...
...Freedoms of Speech, Press and Assembly along with the legal guarantees to them are the only defenses we have. Even the devil or administrators that promote policies of war must be allowed to speak for everyone's freedom is lessened when one person is denied these essential rights...