things and how they seem

oia

"If there is someone who is to become a leader and through experimentation we learn that in fact, they would sacrifice multiple lives to reach their goal, they might not be elected. Were they to know of the tests in advance, surely they would curb and alter their answers. However, in the right circumstances wherein they believed to be making their decisions freely and without alteration, we might learn this bit of information about them and thus save the lives they would otherwise sacrifice." There are more examples you could provide, but you sense Loren is simply being argumentative now. Not that you don't love to argue, but you don't like to do it with those who are dogmatic and Loren certainly strikes you as being in that camp.

"I do." You say with an easy nod. Your judgement isn't corroded by emotions, but is clear. Not a trait many can ascribe themselves to.

"Cases may be different but the underlying principles ought to be the same. What one considers right or wrong, permissible or not, don't actually change. Our judgement about when they are appropriately applied do. However we don't often apply these judgments correctly. To treat each case on their own suggests a rather slippery decline into relativism." You say this as if relativism is a laughable concept. Which, to your mind, it is.

Your look is as blank as Loren's is confident. Though he's not said anything that prompts a response from you. "Yes." You reply, as he expects. "They are selfish and vain. They hoard things they think are valuable and are easily offended."

"Why are those things exemplary of experiencing life. I have a family. I do not want to kiss anyone. I provide knowledge." As for joy? Well, you hardly see the point of it, though you know others do. Picking up your quill again you scribble a few more notes about the human-animal that is Loren.

of course it's exhausting, having to reason all
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

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