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RE: https://tenforward.social/@garak_quotes/117115217629691464

I thought about the exact quote, like, an hour ago? I have been re-reading The City of Blades, by Robert Jackson Bennett, where a character refers to the ends justifying the means, which is more or less the point that Garak is making here...

... and it is such a perfectly Garak thing to say, pragmatic and morally ambiguous, unusually dark for Star Trek (maybe that is why it has stuck with me so much?).

I can't even say that I disagree with Garak's moral calculus in this specific instance: as general (qualitative) statement "the end justifying the means" can, has been and will be used to excuse horrors. As a quantitative statement, suggesting that we attempt to balance the consequences of our actions, it seems a reasonable approach to living a moral life in an imperfect world.

Now we only have to agree on what is good and evil, and what weights to apply before doing our moral sums....

Anyway: good bot!

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Chief Medical Officer of DS9 should start a pet grooming business as Dr Brushir.
He can recruit a non-Trill alien hybrid, MisTress 9 to do a humanoid barber shop expansion.
Finally, for merchandise and accessing, someone with aeons of experience across cultures and bizarre fashion, get like Hatem. (More of a reach: Atem or yami yugi.)
...also, styling should go to Frizz-less Gelda.
I guess CourtHonor can be their lawyer when something goes wrong?

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