He considered liability as a problem of physics. She spoke of liability as a problem of ethics. The difference was important. He had spent his life making a tradeoff between them without naming the scale.
They sat across the table. The mound of clay sat between them like a small, innocent planet. MudBlood Prologue -v0.68.8- By ThatGuyLodos
He considered answering with a ledger entry. Instead he offered a question: “Who wants this?” He considered liability as a problem of physics
He looked down at his hands, at the faint clay dust under his nails, and then at the empty mug, at the tape case, at the mapped lines that had started to look like a life. He had been careful, but care is not the same as absolution. The ledger was not a moral instrument. It was a mechanism for ordering consequences. He had spent his life making a tradeoff
-v0.68.8- By ThatGuyLodos