There had to have been a moment when this had become the new normal. - James S. A. Corey

You're not picking a fight with the things that made the protomolecule. You're picking a fight with whatever killed them. Orders of magnitude above the things that were orders of magnitude above us. You've got to know this is going to escalate if we keep using these technologies.
We were always going to keep using these technologies. That was inevitable the moment we opened the gates," Duarte said. "If you've studied any history at all, you know that. Never in human history have we discovered something useful and then chosen not to use it.

But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.

I don't think he sees it that way," Pa said. And then, "But I think he's putting a lot of effort into not seeing it that way.