Wow, I loved the essay. I hadn't realized I was part of such a united, powerful organisation and that I was so impressively intelligent, rhetorically powerful and ruthlessly self interested. I seriously felt flattered.
You are in a Chinese room, according to his argument. No one of us is as cruel as all of us.
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