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"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" Line-by-Line

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BASHIR: You don't see anything wrong with what happened, do you?
 
ROSS: I don't like it. But I've spent the last year and a half of my life ordering young men and young women to die. I like that even less.
 
Bashir: That’s a glib answer and a cheap way to avoid the fact that you’ve trampled on the very thing those men and women are dying to protect! Does that not mean anything to you?
 
BASHIR: "In time of war, the law falls silent." Cicero. So is that what we have become? A 24th-century Rome driven by nothing more than the certainty that Caesar can do no wrong!
 
ROSS: This conversation never happened.
(Ross puts his comm. badge back on.)
ROSS: You're dismissed.
 
(Bashir picks up his commbadge, looks at Ross, disgusted and quietly leaves)

(Some time later, Bashir is asleep in his quarters on DS9, he wakes to find Sloan sitting in a chair as before.)

Sloan: Good evening.
 
SLOAN: For being a decent human being. That's why we selected you in the first place, Doctor. We needed somebody who wanted to play the game, but who would only go so far. When the time came, you stood your ground; you did the right thing. You reached out to an enemy, you told her the truth, you tried to stop a murder. The Federation needs men like you, Doctor. Men of conscience, men of principle, men who can sleep at night. You're also the reason Section 31 exists. Someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong.
 
BASHIR: Should I feel sorry for you? Should I be weeping over the burden you're forced to carry in order to protect the rest of us?
 
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