from American Media Periscope:

It’s civilization vs. pre-civilization barbarism, and the stakes couldn’t get any higher.

Imagine that you could create a happy and peaceful society, but to do so you had to “torture to death only one tiny creature. … Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?”

That hypothetical question comes from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov.” Israel has been asked a similar question, but it’s not hypothetical.