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 This is a profound, obvious, asymmetry.
-Similarly, all grievance is in the past. We can tell ourselves different stories about it, we can change our minds about how grievous it is, but it is done.
+Similarly, all victories, all defeats, all vindications and grievances are in the past. We can tell ourselves different stories about them, we can change our minds about how good or bad we think they were, but they are done. They are realised. The profit or loss is known and booked. The potential profit and loss for the future is not. It is — unless you are a deterministic predestination fan, in which case, put your feet up — to some extent within our gift. Among the infinite branches of our possible futures, there are infinite losses and infinite gains. Which ones we capture is, partly, up to us. The ones we have already booked are not.
+Focusing on remediating the past at the expense of the future is a rum business. This is why so many legal rights go unexercised. The client imperative. The revenue to be earned in the unknowable future colossally outweighs the realised loss on ''this'' trade. Learn your lesson, take the loss, show yourself to be a good sport, and concentrate on the next win. Trade your magnanimity for extra business. Or sue, and end the revenue