Millions helped the organised slaughter of Jews – as well as Roma, disabled people, socialists, Slavs and so on – and they were thinking, feeling human beings capable of grief, love and fear, however distressing it may be to accept that fact.
Anything else, they reckoned, would be to accept ethnic cleansing.
If I give up, it would be to accept that all the perpetrators are right.
Another radical solution would simply be to accept the declared sex of each athlete.
Second best would be to accept it but with strings and conditions.
They were, as difficult as it may be to accept, active participants in their own radicalisation.
To put the fire out now, midway, would be to accept defeat, to invite bad luck.
You don't see it because to do so would be to accept the need for action.
To do so would be to accept the empire itself as refinement.
One possibility would be to accept the kind of antitrust settlement that would clearly signal a shift.
The less detainees can count on the governments to follow through, the less inclined they'll be to accept such arrangements".
