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I’m not into revenge. It has a nasty habit of biting you back when you least expect
their daughter is beyond my help, and probably anyone else’s. You can live out your spoiled life without effort, secure in the depths of your own supreme ignorance, and die as you lived: without purpose, true fulfillment, or any discernibly useful function.”
It’s somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you think other humans are somehow different enough to be killed, when you’re all tiresomely similar in outlook, needs, and motivation, and differ only in peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.”
“I’m getting really confused over this whole honor thing,” I said. “Isn’t a willingness to die and to kill for an abstract concept of dubious relevance a bit nuts?”
“Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners, but if you’re brought up in a system where honor is valued more than life itself, it makes a lot more sense. Some. A bit. Anyway—they
