There must be
Thousands! What's that got to do with it?
Thousands - not with camels either:
Millions and millions of mankind
Burned, crushed, broken, mutilated,
Slaughtered, and for what? For thinking!
For walking round the world in the wrong
Skin, the wrong-shaped noses, eyelids:
Sleeping in the wrong night wrong city -
London, Dresden, Hiroshima.
There never could have been so many
Suffered more for less.
...
We have no choice but to be guilty.
God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
-Archibald MacLeish, JB, 1958
(via Yee Sum)