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1 " We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It’s called ‘moral vanity’. "
― Greg Egan , The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
2 " a lot of bored, aimless people who’d never really found any purpose. But then they realised that they could fill that hole by inventing a grievance, and taking sides, and refusing to be swayed no matter what. "
3 " The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. “Once "
