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“Let me ask you something.”
“Okay!”
“Are we good guys or are we bad guys?”
“We’re good guys.”
“Well, good guys only do terrible things when our lives depend on it. And we have to feel bad about them afterward.”
“Why?”
“Because otherwise, we become the bad guys.”

— C. Robert Cargill Day Zero (2021)

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