When Noble Intentions Miss the Target
A chain of men is going to the galleys by the king's order. Quixote hears slavery and cuts. Gines will not play the grateful extra. The commissary never had authority to release them. The men stone their liberator and take what they can. Freedom as a speech does not survive contact with the road.
Key Insight
If your help has no next hour for the people you unbind, you may have only transferred the violence onto yourself and then onto the next village.
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