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When ‘all is permitted’ in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist. Furthermore, … - Tzvetan Todorov
" "When ‘all is permitted’ in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist. Furthermore, all the terrorists in the world think they are counter-terrorists, merely responding to a prior act of terror. They are not the only ones: it is always possible, and easy, to find a prior violence that supposedly justifies our present violence. But, on this way of reckoning, war will never end.
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About Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
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compte, que de l’extérieur : n’est respectable que la dignité qui sert le bien. Bettelheim se souvient de ces conflits entre détenus : « Lorsqu’il s’agissait de construire des bâtiments pour la Gestapo, ils discutaient pour décider s’ils devaient le faire bien. Les nouveaux venus étaient partisans du sabotage, la majorité des anciens, pour l’ouvrage bien fait » (Cœur, 270). Si le mur entoure un camp, il n’est pas bon. Un mur mal construit, dans un esprit de résistance, eût été préférable.
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