“Could he use the same excuse as the Confed—the end justified the means? Sometimes it did, of course, but could one ethically justify using the same methods as a deplored enemy, in order to get it to stop?”

— Steve Perry , book The Man Who Never Missed

Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 132)

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