When a nation is living through a crisis, whether its citizens like it or not, it becomes a crisis of conscience for every individual.
What do you yourself do, faced with the choice of engaging or disengaging, when your country is walking a warlike path?
The little shopkeeper and his wife, placidly standing in front of their shop, a faint smile on their lips as they watch the men in brown shirts marching down the street, have definitely made a choice. So have the people who remain silently in their homes, choosing to do nothing.