“Not necessarily. Not all was her duty.” She laid on her side facing him, their faces only inches apart. “Think about it, Azriel. The action itself is humane, is it not? The fact that it becomes a duty to obtain reinforces it. To know right and wrong, good, and bad, knowing to act on that same basis of knowledge is what humanity is all about. People sometimes are tired, heartbroken, starved, sick, deliriously happy, or overjoyed, other states of mind where inhibition is stolen from you, they might act upon how they feel at those moments, but acting upon those feelings is the most human thing
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