Thus it can happen- and this is the scandal- that the death of a man results in freedom and life for others. This is a 'banal' piece of evidence, difficult to accept as fact; it determines the behaviour of all of us in the face of death as a daily event. In fact the inequality that gives hierarchy to the life of men obviously confers various weights to their deaths..... And since it is plain to see that the future will be inhuman, decency requires that everyone chooses his wounded and his dead, that he mourn the latter and cure - if he can - the former.

Franco Piperno.