http://aesop.pangyre.org/ en-us Public domain 2010-06-03T00:00+00:00 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 101stMonkey v0.5 450 http://aesop.pangyre.org/fable/the-trumpeter-taken-prisoner.html A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy. He cried out to his captors, “Pray spare me, and do not take my life without cause or without inquiry. I have not slain a single man of your troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet.” “That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they said; “for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.”

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