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economic crisis. The fact that ideas so stupid could germinate in the brains of retarded people is forgivable. What is not, is that governments could use the masses by utilizing such monstrous ideas : ' tea to motivate them and give them reasons to act. The French leaders in Algeria acted along this same principle. They forced their officers into torturing North-Africans under the pretense of obtaining information useful to their country. Those officers who did the torturing even considered that they were “sacrificing themselves”, by acting this way, “bravely”, in the best interests of their country. Men of the Earth, be very vigilant and do not accomplish the slightest action without asking yourself whether it is in contradiction to your deep sense of respect for the human being. Refuse any hierarchy implying a suppression of your responsibility for the actions you carry out. Every Nazi war criminal, while on trial, defended himself in good faith, by claiming that he was only following orders. The man who launched the bomb on Hiroshima was only following orders. In every powerful country, there are people who are ready to launch nuclear missiles in good faith and with a clear conscience, knowing that they are only “doing their duty in executing the orders received”. They are responsible for their actions! In every part of Nazi Germany, men, women and children were tortured because people were following orders, and according to them the only man responsible for all of this would be Hitler. It would be much too easy if it were so! For example, there are hundreds of nuclear missiles ready to be launched from France and destined for other countries where thousands of women and children are living, and if the massacre happened, would the only man held to be responsible for it be the President of the Republic? Of course not! Each man holding the power to kill others is personally responsible for the utilization of this power. The man who lights the crematorium furnace where children lie moaning, is more responsible than the one who has given the order in the first place, just as the man who delivers a bomb on a city is more responsible than the one who toa otoee 319 AN ATHEIST RELIGION - DERESPONSIBILISATION made the decision.