Do our invocations of conscience reveal it to be the still-vital residue of a kind of certainty linked to infallible authority from which we cannot alienate ourselves even when we'd like to?
When we like ourselves, even our "flaws" and "imperfections," we're much less likely to be grumpy pricks who hold everyone under a microscope.
Because, annoyingly, people really, really care about beauty, and there are still a lot of rules about it, and that's why women are thinking about it at all and feeling like we have to put ourselves down, even when we look like the kind of pretty, thin, white women that Dove would choose for a polite, non-threatening campaign about how, seriously, we should all feel better about ourselves.
We distance ourselves, even when we look like we're belonging.
Even when we grumble like Grinch, we can end up benefiting.
I felt the love my sister and I have for each other even when we fight like family.
Humans make mistakes, humans fail, and humans don't always get things right, even when we feel like we are trying hard enough.
This being Adult Swim, things usually go off the rails pretty quickly, and it often doesn't really make any sense, even when we feel like we're in familiar territory.
These high expectations that we set ourselves up against can lead to failure - even when we feel like we have met out own expectations, others will think that it wasn't enough!
Mr. Patrick told them that "even when we don't like the question, we've got to let it be asked".
