QOTD: Without Thought

clipped from www.samizdata.net Can an individual, or body of people, acting without thought, in a mood of crowd-pleasing over-excitement, amid a succession of equally superfluous and ill-considered acts, be said to have consciously intended anything at all? In an ideal world, there would be effective safeguards against such people. - Catherine Bennett, on the will of parliament, in Britain the manner of exercising and dispensing absolute power.