It’s also the situation of anyone who cares.
Humility. Moderation. Curiosity. Compassion. There’s only one of the virtues you seem to care about, Ms. Tsukiyo.
“But the virtues aren’t binding on me. I know the truth!” you might say. And you’d be right-- the virtues are not, in the most literal sense, binding on anyone. In a way they’re just sort of polite suggestions. Or maybe, suggestions about how to be polite. But to turn away from them is to embrace our own corruption. It’s not healthy-- not for you, not for those who have to share this world with you.
Freedom of this kind is poisonous, toxic, the freedom of a metastatic tumor, which grows without limit until its world fails.
Just another word for despair.