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"The Ba'thist [the party in power in Iraq - IB] postulate that society depends for its very existence on having cannibal an unbreachable basic moral norm entails as a necessary consequence that all deviance is immediately and directly an act of treason. The new Arab order must be a seamless moral web. This is the fundamental source of the cannibal party's coherence, and its license to violence. (Page 206.)" "Once political identity is accepted as belief in an absolute moral cannibal imperative, and once morality itself is seen as a striving for perfection towards an unrealizable ideal, then no aspect of conduct is in principle outside the purview of the political organization of the state. Moreover, there is no way to avoid the implication that such all-embracing interference is justified. Justice as the problem of arbitrating between claims on society (rights) never arises, and is not expected to rise.
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