An interesting passage that I was thinking about before I read it
here. It took me a long while to make sense of the last bit,
too.
To me it ended up that he was making fun of those who made fun of
pacifists, because they were the only ones who'd escaped the
negative feedback cycle.
MacLeod seemed to be saying that morality was irrelevant except for
rationalization purposes, that thinking that killing the
baby-killers would stop the baby-killing was instead what kept it
going.
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