This is a conversation between Ralph Allison and Charity, a Professor CIE.
Ralph: Well, I don't have the right to kill Linda.
Charity: No, you don't.
Ralph: Now, however, in our culture, everyone of those ten commandments seems to have a list of exceptions. And one of the list of exceptions, for example, is in wartime. You train people to go out and kill other people as soldiers.
Charity: Correct.
Ralph: On both sides. That's a sample of an exception. Another exception is in self defense. If you are being assaulted by somebody, who is sticking a knife in you, and you have a gun, you have the right to shoot him because he's sticking a knife in you, and you're defending your life. Very few people would argue about that.
Charity: But the Essences already know what's going to happen to them so therefore it is not an exception to the rule.
Ralph: That's where it gets a little complicated.
Charity: How does it get complicated? It is a very simple, straightforward aspect that we deal with.