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Suppose the Samaritan had bound up a single wound, or relieved a single pang of the bleeding wayfarer who had fallen among thieves, and then had gone to the next inn and boasted of his benevolence.
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Mann uses the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate the inadequacy of partial help in the face of greater suffering.
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