Putting Cruelty First

The following article first appeared in Daedalus 111:3, Summer, 1982, pp. 17-28
(Copyright 1982 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences). It is reproduced
with the kind permission of MIT Press Journals. Parts of the article were reprinted in
Ordinary Vices (Harvard University Press, 1984).

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