Fifty simulations, and you don't read that they've reached some measure of self-awareness of the passing of time and the expenditure of the resources? You're the one not reading into it properly.

[ kaveh frowns. he tips his chin. ] Either way, I don't see an inherent contradiction between personal intent and community intent. Weren't you the one who always agreed with this aspect of communal being: that if you are to save someone, you must first save yourself. We are allowed to expand our apartments for our own benefit because benefiting ourselves means we are in a better position to give back to the environment. I will make a bet with you that if the apartment wall I knock down for myself is adjacent to the apartment of another person trying to enjoy their space, the hole will be repaired in twenty-four hours, and I'll be in handcuffs by day's end.

Give yourself a life vest before giving someone else a life vest. While I personally don't agree with this view, that doesn't mean I can't argue it when I plainly see it. Obligations exist because of the unwritten social contract. Freedom only exists in the context of obligation.