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Pirsig
Guest
...join a resistance group? If so, would you be prepared to give your lives? Commit murder? Commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people? Betray your country to foreign powers? Are you prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power of your foreign oppressors? If, for example, it would somehow serve the resistance group's interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child's face, are you prepared to do that? Are you prepared to lose your identity and live out the rest of your life as a waiter or a dock worker? Are you prepared to commit suicide, if and when the group orders you to do so? Are you prepare to separate from your family and never see them again?