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Indeed, under normal circumstances, a rule against stealing would be one that all right-thinking people ought to follow.

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He would recognize better than anyone the ethos that controls his former workplace: “At any given moment,” he once wrote, “there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

"There can be no justification for the vile abuse against them, or the attempted assaults and attacks on members of the force that will shock all right-thinking people," he said.

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It was obvious to all right-thinking people that “we” had won the culture war, despite the occasional flare-up of distressing rear-guard skirmishes.

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Prosecutor Richard Wright KC said it had been a "moronic mission" and the men had thought it was "just a tree", while all right-thinking people had been angered and saddened by the "arboreal equivalent of mindless thuggery".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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