human
You are going to purgatory, he said,
gpt
Does duty count as nothing?
human
Please don't rail at duty. I know your creed is pleasure, but the pursuit of pleasure does not, after all, bring happiness.
gpt
Who wants pleasure? demanded Nap fiercely.
human
That's only the anesthetic when things get unbearable. You use duty in the same way. But what we both want, what we both hanker for, starve for, is just life! Who cares if there is pain with it? I don't, nor do you. And yet we keep on stunting and stultifying ourselves with these old-fashioned remedies for a disease we only half understand, when we might have all the world and then some. Oh, we're fools--we're fools! His voice rang wildly passionate. He flung out his arms as if he wrestled with something.
gpt
We've been cheated for centuries of our birthright, and we still put up with it, still bring our human sacrifices to an empty shrine!