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What does it mean?
Even good people commit terrible acts and wash their hands to feel clean.
In plain terms
Everyone sins; we call ourselves just to ignore the blood.
What can you take from it?
Just people often ignore their own guilt.

Where it applies

  • ethical reflection
  • historical judgment
  • personal guilt

Putting it to work

  • examine your actions
  • stop washing hands
  • accept complicity

Questions to consider

  • What have you washed your hands of?
  • Are you a just man?

Another view

Some acts are so small they never reach the conscience.

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