In Tehran, a crowd gathers. Someone has caught a pickpocket red-handed. The man pleads for mercy. One onlooker says he should be turned over to the police. But another asks whether no one there has ever read Tolstoy's "What, Then, Must We Do?": http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mercy-iran-20130317,0,1407365.story
The text of "What, Then, Must We Do?," aka "What Shall We Do?": http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38690/38690-h/38690-h.htm
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