Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!” Larch blurted hastily. …”In a better world…” she began patiently.”No, not in a better world!” he cried. “In this one–in this world. I take this world as a given. Talk to me about this world!” …”Oh, I can’t always be right,” Larch said tiredly.”Yes, I know,” Nurse Caroline said sympathetically. “It’s because even a good man can’t always be right that we need a society, that we need certain rules–call them priorities, if you prefer,” she said. …Always in the background of his mind, there was a newborn baby crying… And they were not crying to be born, he knew; they were crying because they were born.

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