The righteous destruction of terrible handkerchiefs? Of course.
[ okay, okay, she promised. 'but so did you,' says the look she passes over to Kitty. ]
As to the other, I do. The alternative is that there is no true order to the world at all. If everything were accident combined with man's devising, then there is no reason to respect any structure of any society, nor any reason save what one can dream up for oneself to care for those within it. 'You ought to because I think it is good to do so and I say so' has far less power than 'so it has been ordained'.
[ another sip of her drink, mostly for punctuation. ]
And I trust the motivations of men far less than I trust the motivations of the Maker.
[ and she doesn't even think about the Maker all that often. ]
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Date: 2018-07-31 07:51 pm (UTC)The righteous destruction of terrible handkerchiefs? Of course.
[ okay, okay, she promised. 'but so did you,' says the look she passes over to Kitty. ]
As to the other, I do. The alternative is that there is no true order to the world at all. If everything were accident combined with man's devising, then there is no reason to respect any structure of any society, nor any reason save what one can dream up for oneself to care for those within it. 'You ought to because I think it is good to do so and I say so' has far less power than 'so it has been ordained'.
[ another sip of her drink, mostly for punctuation. ]
And I trust the motivations of men far less than I trust the motivations of the Maker.
[ and she doesn't even think about the Maker all that often. ]