This post looks lonely with no comments, but I have no serious thoughts at the moment. Instead, I am struck by the irrational urge to voice-over this scene with dialogue from my favorite Woody Allen movie, Love and Death. It's his parody of great Russian novels which are full of convoluted philosophical reflections (*cough*Dostoyevsky*cough*)
Diane Keaton: It's our chance to perform a truly heroic act!
Woody Allen: Since when is murder a heroic act?
DK: Violence is justified in the service of mankind.
WA: Who said that?
DK: Attila the Hun.
WA: You're quoting a Hun to me?!? Don't you know that murder carries with it a moral imperative that transcends any notion of inherent universal free will?
DK: That is incredibly jejune.
WA: That's jejune?
DK: Jejune!
WA: You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias.
DK: I have Ivan's old pistol.
WA: No! Political assassination doesn't work. Violence leads to violence. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Well, I'm out of clichés now.
Diane Keaton: It's our chance to perform a truly heroic act!
Woody Allen: Since when is murder a heroic act?
DK: Violence is justified in the service of mankind.
WA: Who said that?
DK: Attila the Hun.
WA: You're quoting a Hun to me?!? Don't you know that murder carries with it a moral imperative that transcends any notion of inherent universal free will?
DK: That is incredibly jejune.
WA: That's jejune?
DK: Jejune!
WA: You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias.
DK: I have Ivan's old pistol.
WA: No! Political assassination doesn't work. Violence leads to violence. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Well, I'm out of clichés now.
DK: Are you suggesting passive resistance?
WA: No, I'm suggesting active fleeing!
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