Easy to make rules. Easy to make systems with a perfect logic and rigor. All you need to do is leave out the mercy, yeah? Then when you put people into it and they get chewed to nothing, it’s the person’s fault. Not the rules. Everything we do that’s worth shit, we’ve done with people. Flawed, stupid, lying, rules-breaking people. […] Our rules are good, and they’d work perfectly if it were only a different species.

– The Expanse book 8: Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey