An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools_ People can shout at you from all sides: __ou must!_ And your own head can be saying also: __ou must!_ But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don__ want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
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Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools_ People can shout at you from all sides: __ou must!_ And your own head can be saying also: __ou must!_ But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don__ want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.
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