Nate’s Reviews > Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City > Status Update

I guess you can only understand the significance of that if you were a small, weak kid, like I was. At that age, human beings are animals. The biggest and strongest rule over the small and weak; no justification needed or sought, it's instinctively recognized as the way things are--and should be; the small, weak kid doesn't doubt the validity of the system, he just thinks it's unfair he was born little.