该系统的深层问题是一种道德惯性。只要它服务于其中每个人的狭窄自身利益，无论它多么腐败或险恶，都不会在内部寻求改变它 - 尽管即使使用腐败和险恶之类的词也使严肃的人感到不舒服，因此布拉德避免了他们。
(The deep problem with the system was a kind of moral inertia. So long as it served the narrow self-interests of everyone inside it, no one on the inside would ever seek to change it, no matter how corrupt or sinister it became-though even to use words like corrupt and sinister made serious people uncomfortable, and so Brad avoided them.)