It’s an atrocity to harm one’s country, and thus to harm any citizen, for he is a part of one’s country. The parts of a thing are sacred, if the whole is deserving of reverence. Thus it’s a sin to harm any human being, for that person is a citizen in your larger “city.” How would it be if your hands wanted to harm your feet, or your eyes to harm your hands? Just as all the limbs operate in harmony with one another, since the whole benefits from the preservation of the parts, so human beings keep from harming individuals, since they are created for unity; society cannot be kept intact except by
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