ganns@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) (07/16/85)
point to ponder (quote):
When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother
for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved
at school. A group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and
tormenting a six-year-old. "It is always so," my mother said.
"You do things together which not one of you would think of
doing alone." . . . Wherever one looks in the world of human
organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of
moral standards. The military establishment is an extreme case,
an organization which seems to have been expressly designed to
make it possible for people to do things together which nobody
in his right mind would do alone.
- Freeman Dyson, "Weapons and Hope", Harper&Row