[now they don't exist. peter wonders how many people would want to save the world if they knew that the world they saved wouldn't be for them, or their children, or their children's children. that it would be for entirely different people, perhaps at best different versions of the people who sacrificed for that world to be saved. but peter doesn't really believe in altruism. there's always some payment in the deal.
peter's anger and grief is mostly impersonal, comes out of the understanding of a people who others have tried to erase over and over. stanley's comes from people he knows being wiped from the world.]
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[now they don't exist. peter wonders how many people would want to save the world if they knew that the world they saved wouldn't be for them, or their children, or their children's children. that it would be for entirely different people, perhaps at best different versions of the people who sacrificed for that world to be saved. but peter doesn't really believe in altruism. there's always some payment in the deal.
peter's anger and grief is mostly impersonal, comes out of the understanding of a people who others have tried to erase over and over. stanley's comes from people he knows being wiped from the world.]
It's all shit lousy.