The brutality of a man purely motivated by monetary considerations … often does not appear to him at all as a moral delinquency, since he is aware only of a rigorously logical behavior, which draws the objective consequences of the given facts.

Sociologist, philosopher

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Critiquing the moral blindness that can result from purely rational, economic motivations in modern society.

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