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There is an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Look to Windward (2000)
Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
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Believe me; democracy in action can be an unpretty sight.
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Did you know that true subjective time is measured in the minimum duration of demonstrably separate thoughts?
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“What, now?”
“Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.”
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Are you really as ignorant as you appear, Trelsen, or is this some sort of bizarre act, perhaps even meant to be amusing?
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Oh, yeah, this Ziller guy. Some spoiled, fur-rending liberal brat who thinks it’s his God-given duty to do the whining for those who can’t be bothered whining for themselves.
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“You serious?”
“I’m always serious, never more so than when I’m being flippant.”
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“Oh. I didn’t realise.”
“Then you’re simply ignorant rather than malevolent. Congratulations.”
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Just as I need never wonder what it is like to die, so I need never wonder what it is like to kill, Ziller, because I have done it, and it is a wasteful, graceless, worthless and hateful thing to have to do.
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When it was first revealed that each of our own deaths had to be balanced by that of an enemy—
~ It wasn’t revealed, Huyler. It was made up. It was a tale we told ourselves, not something the gods graced us with.
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“It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.”
“Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilisationally.”
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The background to the war, my studious Homomdan pal, is three thousand years of ruthless oppression, cultural imperialism, economic exploitation, systematic torture, sexual tyranny and the cult of greed ingrained almost to the point of genetic inheritability.
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I’m supposed to be at this sort of thing but even I find it pretty damn tedious at times. Still, receptions and parties are pan-cultural, so we’re told. I’ve never been sure whether to be reassured or appalled by that.
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~ Want to know one ugly thought?
~ Are there not enough in the world already?
~ Assuredly. But sometimes ugly thoughts can be prevented from becoming ugly deeds by exposing them.
~ If you say so.
~ One should always ask who has most to gain.
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We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future triumphs. But the universe does not have our own best interests at heart, and to assume for a moment that it does, ever did or ever might is to make the most calamitous and hubristic of mistakes.
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