Application: Your Pet Cat Has Killed A Songbird. You Are Angry At The Cat For Killing The Bird - But Your Parents Say - "Don't Blame The Cat; A Cat Cannot Be Doing Anything Evil By Killing The Bird. It Is Simply A Cat's Nature To Kill Birds." In Fact - Your Parents Are Telling You That Cats Are

The Prince famously argues that the ends, no matter how immoral, hustify the means for preserving political authority, may have been written as a satire, according to some critics, or as British philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell once said, as “a handbook for gangsters.”