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I am afraid the pleasure of the hunt is a stronger element in human nature than most people are willing to recognise: it plays its part in all popular outbursts of moral indignation. Among the head-hunters of Borneo it is indulged without the need of any moral claptrap, but civilised people cannot adequately enjoy the indulgence of their baser passions until they have cloaked them in a garment of lofty ethical sentiments. When people let loose upon a murderer the savage impulses of the head-hunter, they feel neither savage nor wicked but believe themselves to be upholders of virtue and good citizenship.
Source: Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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