Julian got a rather terrifying light in his eye and straightened his spine. “This is something I feel very strongly about.” And that, of course, was a pure and shining truth. The following diatribe was a glorious disquisition on institutions of power being no better than kings, and how humans by their very nature would mutilate even holy, sacred words if it meant they could gain power and accrue material benefit for themselves, and that while the impulse to conquer and consume was indeed also a part of human nature, and indeed part of the nature of all living beings, there was a moral
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