Moral compromises don’t stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

We need each other, and we need literature, and we need knowledge—and we need, very much, to try to be accountable for our own failings and to live up to our best selves. That reality might seem subjective and foolish to Farweather, but it seems objective and rational to me.

Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean.

“And any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.”

Rather, forgiveness is an obligation you take on not to act punitively on your anger.

And I admit, it’s tempting to consider what it would be like to skip out on responsibility, accountability, and interdependence and live only for yourself—but the idea of being surrounded by people with the same sophipathology makes it somewhat less appealing.

Moral compromises don’t stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

Rather, forgiveness is an obligation you take on not to act punitively on your anger.

And I admit, it’s tempting to consider what it would be like to skip out on responsibility, accountability, and interdependence and live only for yourself—but the idea of being surrounded by people with the same sophipathology makes it somewhat less appealing.