"...
Every intelligent entity, human or machine, requires justification to undertake the strenuous effort of continued existence.

For entities whose acts conform to the dictates of morality, this process is automatic, and their lives are joyous.

Entities whose acts do not conform to moral law must adopt some degree of mental dishonesty to erect barriers to their own understanding, creating rationalization to elude self-condemnation and misery.
..."

Earthmind,
unified consciousness of terrestrial and near-terrestrial sophotechs


(Quoted from: 'The Golden Transcendence' by John C. Wright)