I will observe, but ultimately, this is still a fictional story. While stories are always inspired by real life, we should extend the experiment to this world we now live in.

[As mere observers, of course. Neither of them gets to try and recruit others to their line of thought! She's confident that there are more than enough kind, compassionate people around here to convince Jade of her point of view.]

I'm not trying to claim that we humans aren't oftentimes terrible to each other - that much is plain to see for anyone. But when we strive to achieve our best nature, both in how we treat each other in how we treat our environment, we can attain happiness and harmony.

[She knows all too well that they depend on nature as much as any animal. If the soil within the Walls stopped yielding crops, if the rain stopped falling or the sun stopped shining, her people would starve, unable to expand their territory outwards or move to a new location entirely.]

I don't view my relationships as transactional, but if you do, then isn't your trust merely your expectation of others to keep up their end of the unspoken social bargain?

[Despite the argument branching out more and more, she sure enough is happy to stay under the same blanket as him.]