medicine has nothing to do with morality; every illness in itself is an anarchical event, a revolt against Nature, and that’s why one is entitled to counter it with any means at one’s disposal – any means at all. No, don’t indulge your pity for the sick – the sick person places himself “outside the law”, he offends against Order, and to restore proper order, and him with it, we must act as we would in the face of any revolt; we have to attack ruthlessly, using whatever weapon comes to hand. Humanity itself was never healed by goodness and truth, nor was any single human being; if it takes an
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