“I’m saying I’m not doing this for the money. I’m doing this because I have to. And at least, for every suit and scanner I help perfect by field-testing this way, even if my caver dies, ten, twenty, maybe more will survive, will get the chance to use the system like my mother did. When I pack up, maybe it’ll turn out that my net impact was nothing. I know that lives aren’t some finite value, I know that better than anybody, and ten don’t outweigh one, just like my mother and father don’t outweigh the—the twenty-seven people I’ve led to their deaths since. There just isn’t math for that. Can’t
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