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“Humans are a lot like that, if they have a leader who will disregard right and wrong. Humans tend to submit to authority, or at least most of them do. If an authority figure tells them to do something, or even worse, leads by example in doing something that's just plain wrong, something they wouldn't normally do on their own, they'll give in to the lure of the taboo and join right in. You understand what I'm trying to say?”
Just because you can do something that may benefit yourself doesn't necessarily make it right to do so.
Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.”
Jefferson seemed to think it over. “It might be, especially if you could convince people it was something
Smalltime drug dealers carry guns; the big ones don't, not because they're so tough, but because they're worth so much money that even their enemies are reluctant to see anything happen to them. After all, you never know when you might have something your enemy wants to buy.
