We've said and done some awful things to each other, hurt each other badly enough that we go decades or longer without speaking. We're not nice people. Either of us.
[He stares at the screen for a while, trying to figure out how to put what he's trying to say.]
On Earth we had to be that way. That's a very long time of maintaining a fractious and hostile charade. It hasn't left us with much for modeling a better way, has it? Not when we're angry or hurt.
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We've said and done some awful things to each other, hurt each other badly enough that we go decades or longer without speaking. We're not nice people. Either of us.
[He stares at the screen for a while, trying to figure out how to put what he's trying to say.]
On Earth we had to be that way. That's a very long time of maintaining a fractious and hostile charade. It hasn't left us with much for modeling a better way, has it? Not when we're angry or hurt.