And yet we do need, individually and as a society, some values, some belief in the foundations of our conduct, in order to make life bearable. If these too are lies, they are, as Holmes' great contemporary, Joseph Conrad, thought them, true lies; if illusions, then indispensable one. To abandon them is to commit moral suicide.
-Alexander M. Bickel. The Morality of Consent. (77)
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