An idea from Fear and Trembling

Ethics wants everything out in the open. A love story may praise a hero who keeps a painful secret, but ethics says to tell it. Agamemnon should tell Iphigenia himself and face her tears.

From Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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