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"The words of Spock - the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, or the few - have some merit but it all depends on how they are applied."

Careful there. That's only a Planck lenght away from things like "the need of the society as a whole to feel safe outweighs the right of an alleged criminal to be judged fairly, so if we're not sure, we should just lock him up to be on the safe side" - after all, the 'weight' would surely be on the side of the mases...

Me, I'll just stick to the "the needs of no matter how many can never outweigh the rights of even the single one" version. Sorry, Spock.

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