Iain M. Banks Quote
They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons, there exist . . . special circumstances. She smiled. That’s us. That’s our territory; our domain. To some people, he said, that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behavior.
Iain M. Banks
They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons, there exist . . . special circumstances. She smiled. That’s us. That’s our territory; our domain. To some people, he said, that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behavior.