They are people who use duties as an excuse then, aren't they? They don't understand the true meaning of the word or the ideas behind it. When I speak of the kindness of duty, I don't speak of such false duty.
That's the difference, isn't it? True duty may do unkind things but it cannot be done without some heaviness in one's heart. [Her voice softens.] I know a man who stood against his own father and in the end killed him. It was his duty to protect others from the man and so he did the most unkind thing anyone could do. And yet he didn't do it without sorrow.
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That's the difference, isn't it? True duty may do unkind things but it cannot be done without some heaviness in one's heart. [Her voice softens.] I know a man who stood against his own father and in the end killed him. It was his duty to protect others from the man and so he did the most unkind thing anyone could do. And yet he didn't do it without sorrow.