
Hobbit Lawyers Facing Mordor
Designing the Revolution
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The Eichmann Trap
"I don't want to get into big you know arguments about the comparison between the Holocaust and what's happening today in any big round way. What I do want to do is just investigate more generically what what the Weber's cage looks like because arguably what Eichmann was saying when he was in court was free things first of all he wanted to do a good job secondly he was there to obey orders from his superiors and thirdly he believed in obeying the law so you can see where those orientations led" "Following the rules following the law is intrinsically problematic when you're faced with objectively extreme circumstances such as the takeover of a crumbling economy by a dictator," says David Walliam
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