“What if,” he said, “what if it’s the people that have a higher sense of what’s right and wrong than those conscripted to enforce it?”’ The doctor paused. He drew his forefinger across the spittle on his moustache, then asked: ‘To love the stranger, isn’t that what God wanted?’ ‘You can’t put yourself on God’s level.’ ‘That would be easy. God knows all the answers. I’m trying something more difficult, the human level.’
