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A Fragment of a Modern Parable

A ship making way in the middle of the ocean alters course in order to rescue a large number of weak and struggling people who are clinging to a slowly sinking raft. As the ship resumes its course, the survivors are given water, food, fresh clothing and a place to bed down on the deck. For a brief time, while the survivors are recovering their strength, they regularly express their thanks and indebtedness to the crew and the officers of the ship.
Soon, though, the survivors begin to get angry. They resent the fact that they are living on the deck of the ship while the crew and the officers of the ship have staterooms. They resent the fact that they have no control over the destination of the ship (the ship is heading in a direction that the survivors do not wish to go). They resent the fact that they are not themselves in charge of the ship, deciding where it goes and who is allowed to travel on it.
Because the survivors are outnumbered by the crew and the officers of the ship, they cannot easily take the ship over. And so they resolve to pretend to cooperate with the crew and the officers while they formulate plans for killing the ship's officers and overpowering its crew. This pretense is quite convincing at first, and the crew and the officers of the ship are taken in by it.
But as the survivors grow stronger and more numerous (it was a long voyage, you see), their patience begins to evaporate. And so it comes to pass that one morning some of the survivors act, translating their hatred and their resentment into the language of human slaughter. What they do chills the hearts of even the most well-meaning among the crew and the officers of the ship.
The account of the savagery unleashed by the raft survivors on the crew and the officers of the ship that saved their lives begins with a vicious...