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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9598427" data-attributes="member: 18">Nah.That's a cheap and cynical justification used by genuinely evil (or completely amoral, but what's even the difference?) men to do genuinely evil/horrific/monstrous things, and the very fact that normal, sane, decent people are outraged and upset when these things come out proves that it's not true. To put it another way it's a "lie people tell themselves" - specifically these evildoers tell themselves this lie.The only people who are "happy that lack of knowledge relieves them of responsibility" are other cynical, amoral men, often quite senior in government.Even Le Carre doesn't actually believe either of those things. He treats them again as "lies people tell themselves". You can see this in his later writing, because he kept writing up to his death in 2020.</blockquote>