There’s a lot here we don’t understand. Adding one more thing to the list doesn’t strike me as the worst crime imaginable. - Alastair Reynolds

“You always did think like an engineer, Svieta.”
She nodded. It was only hours later that she realised he had not necessarily meant it as a compliment.

I’m not asking you to open your mind to all manner of nonsense, Doctor, merely to allow for the possibility of things you might previously have dismissed, or failed to give any consideration to whatsoever. Such as the fact that the world was not always this way, and by implication doesn’t have to be this way in the future.

Believe me, Kanu—the one thing you don’t do in emergencies is think things through. Thinking things through gets you a headstone and a nice epitaph. She thought things through. See how that worked out for her.