Perhaps naively, I have inclined towards a less cynical view of human nature than Ivan Karamazov. Do we really need policing -whether by God or by each other - in order to stop us frombehaving in a selfish and criminal manner? I dearly want to believethat I do not need such surveillance - and nor, dear reader, do you.

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