Jillian Bair

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if the group is “right” by definition, and anyone who breaks ranks with the crowd is, therefore, on the “bad” side, then what will we do with a Mahatma Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr.? Social reformers always oppose the group, since if the mainstream were in the right to begin with, there would be no need for reform. This view also means that thugs like Nazis are, oddly, off the hook since they had their own social contract of sorts.
The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between
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