We're born with certain desires, and some of them are selfish or egotistical. But do we have the potential to educate our desires? Do we find fulfil in higher things like literature, art, music? Maybe we aren't born with that, but maybe we can develop it. And for somebody who does develop it fully, i think toward the end of the story, masili has a chance to develop that more fully. That turns out to be the much more fulfilling path in life. More importantly, may be doing the will of the divine mebbe. I feel virtuous beside the divine aspect, of religious aspect when i exercise faculties that i suspect animals can't.