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could only
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entail a complicity in acts of public injustice.
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His own motto,
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if you want to ascribe him a motto,
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seems to be a variety of the Hippocratic Oath.
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You know that doctors are famous for: "do no harm"
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And to do no harm
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he has required of himself a kind of
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principled abstention from public life.
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If George Bush described himself
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not long ago as the decider,
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you might call Socrates the abstainer.