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‘Upon this principle, who would be innocent?’

Making choices: Rebecca Hardy navigates life’s moral complexities

‘Upon this principle, who would be innocent?’

by Rebecca Hardy 27th September 2024

Growing up as a teenager in the 1980s, there was a film that my Quaker mother particularly liked. The film was Witness, the 1985 feature directed by Peter Weir, about an Amish child who witnesses a murder when travelling with his mother to New York.