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Crime and Punishment is a thick book, there must be a Reader's Digest version somewhere. Try it.
by shitgoose 11y ago
Crime and Punishment is a thick book, there must be a Reader's Digest version somewhere. Try it.
- HelloRipley 11y agoThe poster you are responding to is making a utilitarian moral argument. You are referencing a novel that explores the a common source of crime (poverty) and the chain of events that follows. I don't see the connection. :-S
- awinter-py 11y agoargument, meet counterexample
- shitgoose 11y agoThe novel that I am referencing explores the possibility of justifying the crime by good intentions. I think there is a bit of connection there. (spoiler alert - this utilitarian moral argument didn't work too well for Rodion)