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“Children are a blessing. Like all blessings, occasionally they’re also a curse.”
Compartmentalization is a necessary function of the sapient mind. Every species I’ve met with human-level—or potentially beyond human-level—intelligence has been capable of going “sure, the world is ending, but what about my soup?” I honestly believe that without that capacity for self-distraction, we’d all break under the weight of the world we have to live in.
