keller

"You know, there's been societies, like primitive peoples in Asia and like that, they expose newborn babies on hillsides to kill them, so they won't have to feed them and take care of them. And there's been societies, like the early Eskimos, that put their real old folk out on icebergs to float away and die, because they couldn't take care of them anymore. But this is the first society ever that takes its most powerful productive people, at their prime, at the peak of their ability, and throws them away. I call that crazy."

-- "The Ax", Donald E. Westlake