There are no perfect choices in human affairs. We are always in the game of trying to find the least bad option. You look at the flawed alternatives, realising that all of them will fall short of some imagined utopian possibility. And then from amongst the imperfect choices on offer, and having weighed the various shortcomings against each other, you pick your poison.
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