and goodness knows, we know what goodness is
*Teru's in the fish room, reading.
He looks a little pale, and he's frowning in concentration as he follows the words. Even with the Mansion's automatic translation, it's hard to understand everything in places. L was right that these papers might be a bit advanced for him. But he's trying. He needs to know this.
Occasionally, he'll read a passage out loud to himself.*
..This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority...
*He'd welcome someone to talk to.*
He looks a little pale, and he's frowning in concentration as he follows the words. Even with the Mansion's automatic translation, it's hard to understand everything in places. L was right that these papers might be a bit advanced for him. But he's trying. He needs to know this.
Occasionally, he'll read a passage out loud to himself.*
..This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority...
*He'd welcome someone to talk to.*