Jamal Awil

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Theory rejects an extreme that would destroy it. [fact]

What he lays his finger on is an extreme case that he has to reject. But the reason it is so scandalous is not solely moral but also theoretical: the gut reaction of a theory faced with a phenomenon that, if accepted wholeheartedly, would threaten to destroy it utterly.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 503