About five centuries back, when the work in Operations was only just getting under way, there were certain idiots who compared Operations with the ancient Inquisition. But that’s just as stupid as equating a surgeon doing a tracheotomy with a highway robber. They might both be holding the same knife in their hand and doing the same thing—cutting a living human being’s throat open—but one of them is a benefactor and the other’s a criminal, one has a + sign and the other a – sign.
