All my problems are behind me.

Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed.

In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.

Yet this pornonormative depiction of SM is only one aspect of the story.