Comfort for Pessimists
: [-ROM the McCarthy inquiry to the H Bomb, the sense of moral indecision and the fear that plain men may not even know where the good and right lie in these matters-this fear confronts and appalls us. Is there, for example, a moral distinction to be drawn between the stone age man who clouts a comrade with his adze and the immolation of a flattened city? And if there is a collective as well as an individual responsibility for such things, on whom does it lie? And so one could go on, itemising the burden of fear, shame and guilt that modern man bears. The ordinary man sighs, I suppose, and flips over the pages of the paper to the racing news. -A. J. Danks, in> an NZBS Lookout talk.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 11
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133Comfort for Pessimists New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 11
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