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Another topic consists in examining whether
there was or is another better course than that which is advised, or is being,
or has been, carried out. For it is evident that,
if this has not been done,1 a person has not committed a
certain action; because no one, purposely or knowingly, chooses what is bad.
However, this argument may be false; for often it is not until later that it
becomes clear what was the better course, which previously was uncertain.
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1 If a person has not taken the better course, when he had the chance of doing so, he cannot be guilty.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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