You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
All this happened, more or less.
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.