“I should have become an ‘I’ before I became a ‘we.’ I made choices before I was formed enough to make choices.” “Then that, too, is a choice,” Mathilde snapped back. “Who is this ‘I’ that didn’t become an I? A year from now you’ll say this ‘I’ of today wasn’t yet formed, and that the choices you make today don’t count. This is just self-trickery, a way to weasel out of responsibility for your choices.
