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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: The astounding part of it was the manner in which the person to whom
this outrage on decency seemed quite proper and natural claimed to be
a functionary of high character, and had his claim allowed. In Japan
he would hardly have been allowed the privilege of committing suicide.
What is to be said of a profession in which such obscenities are made
points of honor, or of institutions in which they are an accepted part
of the daily routine? Wholesome people would not argue about the
taste of such nastinesses: they would spit them out; but we are
tainted with flagellomania from our childhood. When will we realize
that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however
disgusting at first, makes it necessary for us to examine carefully
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