Fionnáin quoted The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
The Need for Roots: prelude towards a declaration of duties towards mankind (French: L'Enracinement, prélude …
Similarly, even when a total sacrifice is required, no more is owed to any collectivity whatever than a respect analogous to the one owed to food.
It very often happens that the rôles are reversed. There are collectivities which, instead of serving as food, do just the opposite: they devour souls. In such cases, the social body is diseased, and the first duty is to attempt a cure; in certain circumstances, it may be necessary to have recourse to surgical methods.
— The Need for Roots by Simone Weil (Page 8)
Introducing her ideas of how a collective responsibility exists in a group to ensure food, or that one another are fed in a collective, Weil moves to this point suddenly about how the social body can be diseased. Curious, and potentially problematic thought, written in 1943 in England (after moving from France), which is very relevant.