"And this is the truth of the universe: to live, you must kill. We can be as moral as we want, but the calories have to come from somewhere, and humans can't eat stone. Death feeds life, and life feeds death. The line between greed and necessity is a thin one, [...]" -- from "An Equal Share of the Bone", by Karen Osborne, 2017
[I've been listening to Escape Pod for a few months (since Karen mentioned having sold a story to them) and working my way through old episodes. So far this has been the only story where my immediate reaction at the end was to replay it from the beginning.]
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