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We__e here to execute a murderer,_ Zil said, pointing at Hunter. __e are bringing justice in the name of all normals.___here__ no justice without a trial,_ Astrid said.Zil grinned. He spread his hands. __e had a trial, Astrid. And this chud scum was found guilty of murdering a normal.__he penalty,_ he added, __s death.__strid turned to face the mob. __f you do this, you__l never forgive yourselves.___e__e hungry,_ a voice cried, and was immediately echoed by others.__ou__e going to murder a boy in a church?_ Astrid demanded, pointing toward the church. __ church? In God__ house?__il could see that those words had an effect. There were some nervous looks.__ou will never wash the stain of this off your hands,_ Astrid cried. __f you do this, you will never be able to forget it. What do you think your parents would say?___here are no parents in the FAYZ. No God, either,_ Zil said. __here__ just humans trying to stay alive, and freaks taking everything for themselves.

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The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically. And opinions held for sound reasons have less emotional unity than the opinions of dogmatists because reason is non-party, favouring now one side and now another. That is what people find so unpleasant about it.

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Bertrand Russell

Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-35