I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

