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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1629705" data-attributes="member: 198">I'll let Terry Pratchett handle it:***Let me give you some advice, Captain,&quot; he said.&quot;Yes, sir?&quot;&quot;It may help you make some sense of the world,&quot;&quot;Sir.&quot;&quot;I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,&quot; he said. &quot;You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.&quot;He waved his thin hand toward the city and walked over to the window.&quot;A great rolling sea of evil,&quot; he said, almost proprietorially. &quot;Shallower in some places, of course, and deeper, oh so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end. Amazing!&quot; He slapped Vines goodnaturedly on the back.&quot;Down there&quot; he said, &quot;are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes but because they don't say no.&quot; ***</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 1629705, member: 198"] I'll let Terry Pratchett handle it: *** Let me give you some advice, Captain," he said. "Yes, sir?" "It may help you make some sense of the world," "Sir." "I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," he said. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people,[I] but some of them are on opposite sides[/I]." He waved his thin hand toward the city and walked over to the window. "A great rolling sea of evil," he said, almost proprietorially. "Shallower in some places, of course, and deeper, oh so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end. Amazing!" He slapped Vines goodnaturedly on the back. "Down there" he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say [I]yes[/I] but because they don't say[I] no[/I]." *** [/QUOTE]

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