Steven Pinker Quotes

At A Family Occasion In The 1990s, I Met A Relative By Marriage Who Had Spent Time In Auschwitz. Within Seconds Of Meeting Me He Clenched My Wrist And Recounted This Story. A Group Of Men Had Been Eating In Silence When One Of Them Slumped Over Dead. The Others Fell On His Body, Still Covered In Diarrhea, And Pried A Piece Of Bread From His Fingers. As They Divided It, A Fierce Argument Broke Out When Some Of The Men Felt Their Share Was An Imperceptible Crumb Smaller Than The Others'. To Tell A Story Of Such Degradation Requires Extraordinary Courage, Backed By A Confidence That The Hearer Will Understand It As An Accounting Of The Circumstances And Not Of The Men's Characters.

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