"It is not reasonable to expect all options to be available at all times, nor to expect that any option would not have its tradeoff. While I understand Mr. Abernathy's position, and truly regret that the circumstances have lead us to this, ethics and ideals mean nothing if observance of which requires survival as its price. In the end, even though we share the spark of sapience, human life cannot have the same value as our own."

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Portrait of a character from my fictional world, who I still haven't named, in different points of his life.