Amy said, “Bas, you don’t get to make that choice for other people.” “They didn’t choose to be born!” screamed Bas. “None of us agreed to this! If nobody had chosen for them already, they wouldn’t be hurting. I’m just giving back what was taken from them—the peace of not existing. If you stopped this, and you can’t, but if you did, then every starving child, every burn victim, every cancer patient—all their suffering is on you. Every war, every plague, every earthquake, all of it.” “There’s happiness out there! Right now. Even in this town.