[ Yes, that is exactly the answer she expected. It's a very simple motto to live by, comprehensive and straight-forward. Yet, it is one that is incredibly difficult to work around. ]

People like you put people like me into quite the dilemma, hm?

[ Lacus sighs a little, but there's still a smile playing at her lips. She disagrees with Lobelia, but she is certainly not mad at him for speaking so frankly to her. ]

I think that the greatest and most important virtue of being a sentient being is the ability and right to strive towards happiness, no matter how impossibly far it might seem. I would never want to deny that right - but then, where does that lead to? What kind of world needs to grow in order for your pursuit of happiness and that of others to not be at odds?

Leaders face such difficult questions.