Murphy's voice was impassive.
"Your so-called 'ending' is just one of countless possibilities. And it's the most pessimistic one at that—built on the assumptions that humanity is eternally selfish, wisdom is forever limited, resources are inevitably scarce, and change is doomed to fail."
"The failure of mutual aid and sharing isn't a flaw in the concept itself. It's due to a lack of proper methods, systems, and external support during its implementation. These are the inevitable setbacks and the price one must pay on the path of exploration! To negate exploration itself just because of failure, to decide that the only true path is a return to the conservative, even stagnant, track you have laid out—that is the greatest absurdity of all!"
"More importantly, none of this is actual history! This is just a fragment of a probable future, one you've extrapolated from your own pessimistic view of humanity and the world!"
