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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
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"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."
"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."
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