"But that only replaces one riddle with another," Harrow says ruefully. "Because I do not know how to detect or define evil, either."
"I know what is illegal, what is heretical, what is dishonorable, what is distasteful... ordinarily, I would say oh, but this is philosophical sophistry, and move on, but it is not, is it? These things, these... intellectual phantasms, have weight. Have substance, in the world you know."
"Once scientists believed a man's weight changed in the moment of death, as his soul left his body. This was eventually disproven. But it seems if they had your scales they might have found it... or at least measured the weight in sin their own souls accrued for their methodologies."
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Date: 2020-09-15 09:34 pm (UTC)"I know what is illegal, what is heretical, what is dishonorable, what is distasteful... ordinarily, I would say oh, but this is philosophical sophistry, and move on, but it is not, is it? These things, these... intellectual phantasms, have weight. Have substance, in the world you know."
"Once scientists believed a man's weight changed in the moment of death, as his soul left his body. This was eventually disproven. But it seems if they had your scales they might have found it... or at least measured the weight in sin their own souls accrued for their methodologies."