"But parsing through a seething metropolis of millions of people and figuring out who gets to decide what about where and how others can and should live, what the difference is between helping and condescending, when which humans should lose their freedoms… a few hours on the crisis response team makes me feel like I've lost all semblance of right and wrong. There is something vague and gaseous underneath the whole entire concept, and the further up the thought experiment you get the more wobbly it all feels."
A Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance
