… it was horrible / it was an atrocity / right … / but YOU didn’t think it was an atrocity / you thought you were like saving your country / like destroying the enemy to save your own people / … / what if after you did that / you just lived your life / like went to college and got a job and got married and had kids and grandkids and / … / and then when you were 90 and like on the verge of death with like uh emphysema / that’s when an INTERPOL guy knocks on your door and is like / we found you / we know what you did / and guess what? / you’re going to prison / FOR LIFE”
-- 11 (Week 1, Section 2)

Importance: This quote, spoken by the intellectual and debate-inclined #11, argues that the potential imprisonment and execution of an elderly Cambodian war criminal is fundamentally inhumane. As such, it is a fundamental component of the play's thematic consideration of taking responsibility, arguing that...