Word: defecting
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...itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions of his predecessors who, after all, suffer the hugely disqualifying human defect of being, at the present time, dead. Being alive brings with it a certain prestige, and a tendency to exaggerate...