To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and t… - Walter M. Miller

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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.