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Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.
ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. But we stole it. Now we have a monopoly on death. We are its sole distributor.
Death makes the whole world kin.
The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.
For to put oneself above all other laws is a fundamental recipe for disaster.
owed it to the dead man to hurt a little for him.
Choosing compassion over obligation. There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today’s was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law… and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.
What’s the worst they could do?”
“that upon the confirmation of the winner, the first order of business will be for that winner to glean the loser.”
And which is worse—to be despised, or to be ignored?
Death was unfamiliar to most of them. It needed to exist in its own bubble, as long as they could stay just beyond its outer edge, peering in.
But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human.
What if Faraday’s death was, to use the word Scythe Curie had taught her, murder?
Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency.
