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Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. all our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. and the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. it depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.
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Again: There Is Nothing Inherently Superior About

Susan Sontag
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. all our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. and the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. it depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.
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