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When Bad Things Happen to Good People……

This a much revised section of a chapter (“The Demands of Blood”) of Volume II of Properties of Blood.  It is the first of a series of chapters in which vengeance–its nature, its institutions, its justifications–are discussed.  It begins by taking up one of the oldest and still most thorny ethical dilemmas:  Why do good men suffer, and what can be done about it?  It is the first step in laying the groundwork for understanding the violent anarchy into which American society has fallen and the possible means at our disposal for redressing the injustices.