“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.”
Theodore Dalrymple
Becoming Evil
“Doesn't this all seem humiliating to you? None of it seems to correspond to reality.”
“Don't you feel dirty being complicit in it all?”
“Because we are assenting to obvious lies, those of us who've had questions all this time, we've known what they're doing, the've been telling us all along, they haven't even tried to hide it.”
“And there we all are, just floating eyeballs above a piece of fabric that barely even manages to mask our contempt for it all, I know you feel it too, that's what this is designed to do.”
“To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself and that's not a good feeling if you're a good person.”
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