It is a country that has endeavored, as the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg promised shortly after the attacks last year, to respond with "more openness, more democracy and more humanity" to these most inhuman of crimes which left 77 people dead.

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Good people may in the end decide they do not want to work for inhuman or merely operationally effective companies.

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Watching the audience react to Lustgarten's in-your-face play, it becomes obvious that even the well-heeled types are prepared to believe society contains people like James Asset-Smith, people who despite the best of human intentions are driven by the logic of finance to do inhuman things.

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