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The enactment would be a self-evident monstrosity, and therefore to be disobeyed, as if one of the Ten Commandments were reversed so as to read, “Thou shalt kill.” Such extreme cases serve no purpose.
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Here, Sumner compares extreme legal injustices to a reversal of fundamental moral commandments, advocating for disobedience.
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