preacceptance requirements

Charm'd by your touch, the kneaded clay refines, / The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines […] .

The moral diversity which A, a technically good man, perceives between himself and B, a technically evil man, does not lead him to doubt the absoluteness of moral distinctions, does not lead him to dread these distinctions as tending to estrange man from his brother, and so to destroy human fellowship.

I thought, let's go out and get trashed.