I suppose for this analogy to completely work, Concorde would have to have been constructed from parts secretly stolen from other existing aircraft, and it would frequently have landed in the wrong place and then lied to you about it. But I think my point stands!

Sure, Concorde was an impressive machine, but one with very limited uses, one that was never profitable, hobbled by its enormous financial and environmental costs. It was soon clear that incremental improvement of sub-sonic flight was far more valuable and useful.

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I think what I'm saying is that all babies are the purest form of evil (soz, don't blame me) in the sense that evil is the absense of good like darkness is the absense of light.

We shame children into performative goodness. Hopefully, by example, we teach them genuine goodness.

By Vasily Grossman, “Life and Fate”.