What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.