Interesting but now suprizing how many have found solace in religion.

For a lot of parole boards "belief in a higher power" is a mandatory part of being eligible for any kind of clemency.

In other words: if they want to have any chance of making it out alive, they have to at least pretend to be religious.

They all knew they were going to die soon.

They knew how broken the world is— they took part in the mayhem. They knew there is great evil around.

They found peace. Most asked forgiveness and apologized for what they had done. They left their relatives and friends with reasons to think of them as deeply flawed, but not completely terrible.

It seems a smart thing to do. It’s better than staying evil, frustrated and scared of your impending death.

Where else would you go?

Very esthetic.

Being alone is painful, this is not a bug, it's a feature.

pain is the bootstrap. The only truth

I have no idea what is going on here...

Officially my new favorite spec.

You can remove "in the mouth".

And here I believed this was a settled issue ... oh how wrong I was

I really like the DNA analogy, hadn't encountered it before, it is very poignant. > The system becomes like a gene pool without fresh DNA: predictable, fragile, and prone to degeneration.

This is beautifully written article.

It seems quite telling we are even discussing this.