Ishmael makes it very clear that the Taker way is a terrible way to live, but he doesn’t provide much detail about how we should live.

Readers often say, one way or another, “Well, okay, Mr. Quinn, if THIS isn’t the one right way for people to live, what IS the one right way for people to live?”

I don’t supply an answer to this question in Ishmael for the simple reason that THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE. There never has been and never will be such a thing—any more than there will ever be one right way to build a nest or one right way to spin a web.

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Posted: 08 Feb 1997