Good and Evil

"We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're going. Experience is not convertible. Cruelty cannot be cancelled by equal and opposite quantities of being nice. The weight of sorrow is not lightened by happiness elsewhere. The bad stuff cannot be averaged. It can only be confessed" -- Francis Spufford, Unapologetic