Bill Berg

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There is a certain naivete in the idea that a person can't be a real villain unless he's 100 percent a villain. It is an aspect of the fallacy that I mentioned in Chapter 2 of exaggerating the degree to which an individual is a unity. We should not be surprised that Hitler loved children and animals, or Shylock his wife.
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
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