Friday, 2 October 2026

A saying on how any population divides into the cruel, the merciful and the persuadable

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In 2005, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that Susan Sontag, when asked about the Holocaust, said the following:.

10% of any population are cruel, whatever the circumstances, and 10% are merciful, whatever the circumstances, and the remaining 80% can be swayed in either direction.
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