” Victims? Don’t be melodramatic, Holly. Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving—forever? ” … Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, so why should we?”
Orson Wells as Harry Lime in the film “The Third” man, speaking from the ferris wheel in Vienna.
We reject this. Everyone’s life is of equal value and must not be snuffed out at random. This is the core of what we call The Public Conscience. The law expresses our rejection. Nuclear weapons are criminal because they take Harry Lime’s claims to their ultimate and terrible conclusion.
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