“Damn it, man: anyone who can treat another human being as an object for target practice is stuck even further back in the infantile stage than somebody who’s frightened to move on from the masturbation phase and go to bed with a girl!”

—  John Brunner, book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78 (p. 284)

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