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"The refusal to act decisively on behalf of all humanity would be ‘a moral failure on a scale unparalleled in history’. If this sounds like a sentimental call to the barricades, an echo from the classrooms, streets and studios of forty years ago, then so be it; on the basis of the evidence before us, taking a ‘realist’ view of the human prospect, like seeing Medusa’s head, would simply turn us into stone."