“For it is the most common failing of the moralists, that they assume the world is fair and good and nice, that they assume there must be a good option as opposed to two bad ones, that they think if you simply don’t do anything wrong everything will turn out all right. And sometimes, when the world is warm and bright and man lives in luxury wrought by his hands and his mind, that might even be true. But when the world is dark and cold, and man is huddled tight in a cave while the beasts roar outside, the only thing he has that can drive back the dark is fire.”
From “Nothing left but fire“, by Aphyer