- Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, forças jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vão por falta de apoio, e isso aos milhares, e isso em toda parte! Cem, mil boas ações e iniciativas que poderiam ser implementadas e reparadas com o dinheiro da velha, destinado a um mosteiro! Centenas, talvez milhares de existências encaminhadas; dezenas de famílias salvas da miséria, da desagregação, da morte, da depravação, das doenças venéreas - e tudo isso com o dinheiro dela. Mate-a e tome-lhe o dinheiro, para com sua ajuda dedicar-se depois a servir toda a humanidade e a uma causa comum: o que você acha, esse crime ínfimo não seria atenuado por milhares de boas ações? Por uma vida - milhares de vidas salvas do apodrecimento e da degeneração. Uma morte e cem vidas em troca - ora, isso é uma questão de aritimética. . Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This quote is by the famous philosopher and author, Albert Camus. It is a story about a man who faces the death of his mother and decides to take her life in order that she can be buried with dignity. The idea is that we should all be willing to take the lives of those whom we know so that they can be free from pain and suffering. We should feel no guilt in taking their lives for the good of everyone else.

Source: Crime E Castigo

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