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situations of human beings or polities in extremes
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where the very survival or
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independence of a society is at stake.
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In those situations, you might say,
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and only in those situations,
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is it permissible to violate the precepts of ordinary morality.
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In those situations one must learn how not to be good,
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to have to violate the conventions
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and cannons of ordinary morality.
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Machiavelli takes his bearings from
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these extreme states of emergency
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and in his own way, seeks to normalize them,