This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason — the capacity in… - Salman Rushdie

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This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason — the capacity in Shakespeare’s Iago which Coleridge called “motiveless Malignity” — and we also contain the antidote to that disease — courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground.