#pro-individualism

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This is surely the main problem of the twentieth century: is it permissible merely to carry out orders and commit one's conscience to someone else's keeping? Can a man do without ideas of his own about good and evil, and merely derive them from the printed instructions and verbal orders of his superiors?

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago”