“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices.”

— China Miéville , book Perdido Street Station

Source: Perdido Street Station (2000), p. 607

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