"There's kinds of Goodness you can't express in dath ilan.  Maybe sometimes a house there catches fire and the parents have to run in and risk their own life to save the lives of their children.  But no child ever starves to death, there, for want of food.  No mother or father ever decides to starve themselves so that their children can have a little more food.  That kind of Goodness isn't a thing, there."

"And it is better so.  It wouldn't be worth setting things up so that a child could face starvation, just once, so that their parents could choose to starve themselves instead.  Not even to complete the expression of Goodness, to complete the expression of what mortals can be, inside dath ilan."

"But if, somehow, that happened in dath ilan, just once - I think they'd be able to celebrate the Goodness of the parents who starved, and be glad they'd proved that about themselves individually and collectively, even as they wished it had never happened and mourned the parents whose lives were cut short."

"Really, when you think about it, there's much larger pieces of Goodness missing.  They don't have Hell, at all, let alone Malediction.  No paladin ever risks going to Hell themselves in the uncertain hope of maybe saving more people from Hell than that, not even innocent people, maybe, but just people."

"They would so never ever introduce Hells or Malediction, in dath ilan, just to get the paladins.  But if somehow, that happened to them, they would find a tiny space to celebrate that the expression of Goodness in their world had become more complete."

"There's kinds of Goodness you can't express in dath ilan.  Maybe sometimes a house there catches fire and the parents have to run in and risk their own life to save the lives of their children.  But no child ever starves to death, there, for want of food.  No mother or father ever decides to starve themselves so that their children can have a little more food.  They don't die for their children slowly, one day at a time, facing down the pain and enduring it.  That kind of Goodness isn't a thing, there."

"And it is better so.  It wouldn't be worth setting things up so that a child could face starvation, just once, so that their parents could choose to starve themselves instead.  Not even to complete the expression of Goodness, to complete the expression of what mortals can be, inside dath ilan."

"But if, somehow, that happened in dath ilan, just once - I think they'd be able to celebrate the Goodness of the parents who starved, and be glad they'd proved that about themselves individually and collectively, even as they wished it had never happened and mourned the parents whose lives were cut short."

"Really, when you think about it, there's much larger pieces of Goodness missing.  They don't have Hell, at all, let alone Malediction.  No paladin ever risks going to Hell themselves in the uncertain hope of maybe saving more people from Hell than that, not even innocent people, maybe, but just people."

"They would so never ever introduce Hells or Malediction, in dath ilan, just to get the paladins.  But if somehow, that happened to them, they would find a tiny space to celebrate that the expression of Goodness in their world had become more complete."

"There's kinds of Goodness you can't express in dath ilan.  Maybe sometimes a house there catches fire and the parents have to run in and risk their own life to save the lives of their children.  But no child ever starves to death, there, for want of food.  No mother or father ever decides to starve themselves so that their children can have a little more food.  They don't die for their children slowly, one day at a time, facing down the pain and enduring it.  That kind of Goodness isn't a thing, there."

"And it is better so.  It wouldn't be worth setting things up so that a child could face starvation, just once, so that their parents could choose to starve themselves instead.  Not even to complete the expression of Goodness, to complete the expression of what mortals can be, inside dath ilan."

"But if, somehow, that happened in dath ilan, just once - I think they'd be able to celebrate the Goodness of the parents who starved, and be glad their people had proved that about themselves, even as they wished it had never happened and mourned the parents whose lives were cut short."

"Really, when you think about it, there's much larger pieces of Goodness missing.  They don't have Hell, at all, let alone Malediction.  No paladin ever risks going to Hell themselves in the uncertain hope of maybe saving more people from Hell than that, not even innocent people, maybe, but just people."

"They would so never ever introduce Hells or Malediction, in dath ilan, just to get the paladins.  But if somehow, that happened to them, they would find a tiny space to celebrate that the expression of Goodness in their world had become more complete."