"Not really, their stories weren't really about selfish people, more like - having some totally reasonable Lawful Good reason to end up managing a criminal organization, which turns out to actually be fun for you, and have to come to terms with the fact that you didn't properly hate yourself for doing the Lawful Good thing that didn't look Lawful Good - is as close as Civilization comes to, even in stories -"

"I mean, there are stories about selfish characters too.  But none of those characters seemed to me to be at all like myself, the real thing.  It was like - they were being selfish in contrast to Lawful Goodness, instead of as just themselves - somebody else's fantasy about being selfish -"

"I preferred to stick with the stories about people who ended up managing criminal organizations for totally reasonable reasons.  Further outside the - you don't have the expression.  The way that things get creepy as they're almost like reality but still not quite right, instead of just being properly wrong.  The Trough of the Unreal.  If you actually know what it's like to not be completely Good."

"Not really, their stories weren't really about selfish people, more like - having some totally reasonable Lawful Good reason to end up managing a criminal organization, which turns out to actually be fun for you, and then, you have to come to terms with the fact that you didn't properly hate yourself for doing the Lawful Good thing that didn't look Lawful Good - which is as close as Civilization comes to, even in stories -"

"I mean, there are stories about selfish characters too.  But none of those characters seemed to me to be at all like myself, the real thing.  It was like - they were being selfish in contrast to Lawful Goodness, instead of as just themselves - somebody else's fantasy about being selfish -"

"I preferred to stick with the stories about people who ended up managing criminal organizations for totally reasonable reasons.  Further outside the - you don't have the expression.  The way that things get creepy as they're almost like reality but still not quite right, instead of just being properly wrong.  The Trough of the Unreal.  If you actually know what it's like to not be completely Good."

"Not really, their stories weren't really about selfish people, more like - having some totally reasonable Lawful Good reason to end up managing a criminal organization, which turns out to actually be fun for you, and then, you have to come to terms with the fact that you didn't properly hate yourself for doing the Lawful Good thing that didn't look Lawful Good - which is as close as Civilization comes to, even in stories -"

"I mean, there are stories about selfish characters too.  But none of those characters seemed to me to be at all like myself, the real thing.  It was like - they were being selfish in contrast to Lawful Goodness, instead of as just themselves - somebody else's fantasy about being selfish - or if not that, aliens who were selfish, who didn't have any Good in them at all -"

"I preferred to stick with the stories about people who ended up managing criminal organizations for totally reasonable reasons.  Further outside the - you don't have the expression.  The way that things get creepy as they're almost like reality but still not quite right, instead of just being properly wrong.  The Trough of the Unreal.  If you actually know what it's like to not be completely Good."

"Not really, their stories weren't really about selfish people, more like - having some totally reasonable Lawful Good reason to end up managing a criminal organization, which turns out to actually be fun for you, and then, you have to come to terms with the fact that you didn't properly hate yourself for doing the Lawful Good thing that didn't look Lawful Good - which is as close as Civilization comes to, even in stories -"

"I’m being unfair because I’m bitter.  There are stories about selfish characters too.  But none of those characters seemed to me to be at all like myself, the real thing.  It was like - they were being selfish in contrast to Lawful Goodness, instead of as just themselves - somebody else's fantasy about being selfish - or if not that, aliens who were selfish, who didn't have any Good in them at all -"

"I preferred to stick with the stories about people who ended up managing criminal organizations for totally reasonable reasons.  Further outside the - you don't have the expression.  The way that things get creepy as they're almost like reality but still not quite right, instead of just being properly wrong.  The Trough of the Unreal.  If you actually know what it's like to not be completely Good."