Squashing 'lice': in a news week of 'All Saddam All the Time,' the story of Iraqi victims of cluster bombs fades from sight.(Media)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: January 16, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, which we read in freshman theology, 23-year-old Raskolnikov, who has plunged his ax into the skulls of an old pawnbroker and her sister, tries to justify his murders to his girlfriend, Sonya, a prostitute who represents God's intervening grace. Raskolnikov is a victim of the nihilistic utilitarian ethic according to which "extraordinary" people are above the law and "ordinary" people can be dispensed with for a higher good.

He says of the pawnbroker, "She was only a louse."

And Sonya replies, "But that 'louse' was a human being."

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