“God is dead, but the platitudes linger.” Yatima couldn’t bring verself to ask whether torture and slavery also lingered, but Francesca seemed to read vis face, and added, “Including a lot of confused rhetoric about free will. Most statics aren’t violent, but they view the possibility of atrocities as essential for virtue – what philosophers call ‘the Clockwork Orange fallacy.’ So in their eyes, autonomy makes the polises a kind of amoral Hell, masquerading as Eden.”
