There's a relational equivalent, BTW. In a professional context, it looks like goodwill mining, scope creep, dependency lock-in, normalization drift, reciprocity decay, and strategic ambiguity.
We have strict instructions to discuss today's #funconference on LinkedIn, but that's a weekday platform, so a quick thank you to @CollinsMandy, @TamsinMackay, @BronyW, and Ang Lloyd for setting fire to my brain, & @CityLodge Eastgate for impeccable hospitality <3
"[T]he quality of someone's mind is not a reliable indicator of the quality of their character. Intellectual sophistication can coexist with moral compartmentalisation. Brilliance is not the same as integrity. Complexity is not the same as depth, in the human sense."
Has anyone suggested that Victor destroyed the creature's companion not, as he claims, in fear that they may reproduce, but because what he did was an accident that his fragile ego wouldn't allow him to admit he couldn't repeat?