consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Choose between direct physical violence or slow bureaucratic ineptitude. Both are harmful but manifest differently.
- In plain terms
- Choose between violence or inefficient bureaucracy.
- What can you take from it?
- Injustice comes in violent and bureaucratic forms.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Which harm is worse?
- How do we fight bureaucracy?
Another view
The contrast is stark and may oversimplify complex issues.
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