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debates around Tolstoy’s legacy, however, it has never been noted that he was concerned in pioneering and still-pertinent ways with how legally humanizing vile practices risked entrenching them. It did so in two fundamental ways. First, reformers came to tolerate an enduring evil when they chose to make it more humane. Second, their audiences risked fooling themselves: they came to believe that striking a blow against the cruelty of a practice made their continuing involvement in it noble.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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