The space between what is and what ought to be is where we roam as free people, extending the borderland of the unpredictable. We decide which values to affirm, in what combination, for what reasons, and at what time. Then we try again. With practice, we attain our own human form of grace. There is no escape from judgment, the choice of values. We can add our own rules to those of the fifth dimension, but we remain subject to its peculiar geometry. There will be tensions among the rules we choose, just as there are clashes among virtues. No rule can be final, since there is no way to rank all
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