Flame of Order

Later, the Federation grew ever stronger and began to have the spare capacity to consider more things. Education, healthcare, welfare, security... these things were gradually established, and ordinary people too could enjoy basic rights to survival.

Yet even so, unfairness still existed.

And it always would.

For as long as there was competition, as long as there were differences, as long as there was scarcity, unfairness would not disappear.

Resources were always limited, while human desires were limitless. How to distribute limited resources was forever a difficult problem. No matter how they were distributed, someone would always find it unfair.

Xu Wuyi finally understood.

He understood why he had remained so confused these past three months.

Because he had been pursuing something that did not exist.

Absolute fairness had never existed.

It had not existed in the past, did not exist now, and would not exist in the future.

That was not a goal human effort could achieve. It was merely an ideal, a utopian fantasy.

He could pursue fairness, could strive to make the world fairer, but he could never achieve absolute fairness. Because fairness itself was an objective concept that could not be precisely defined.

It was subjective, existing in the hearts of countless people. Different people would always have different understandings, and no one could satisfy everyone at once.

In the darkness, those images began to fade away.

Xu Wuyi floated quietly, complicated emotions surging in his heart.

There was relief, disappointment, clarity, and confusion.

He was relieved because he had finally understood why he had been confused.

He was disappointed because the belief that had once sustained him had turned out to be nothing but a dream.

He had finally seen reality clearly, but where was he supposed to go from here?

Just then, a light