The plain fact of the matter is that any group will remain potentially conscienceless and evil until such a time as each and every individual holds himself or herself directly responsible for the behavior of the whole group—the organism—of which he or she is part." The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna [Forna was born in Sierre Leone, an African country that was torn by a brutal civil war which took hundreds of thousands of lives, including her father's. Her memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water offers an insight into why she views groups with so much mistrust.]