You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic
condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some
time, every creature that lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow,
the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds
on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
-- Wilbur Mercer, founder of Mercerism
-- Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"