Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
Hannah ArendtThe possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.
Hannah ArendtWhere all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt