Talking to KB makes Sabrina all philosophical it seems
"Look, I'm just saying - you're a utilitarian, right?"
"Not exactly, but the label is a sufficient approximation."
Kuybey idly licked one of its paws with a tongue that was almost more like a proboscis than anything else.
"You want to keep the universe alive, whatever. If that's your goal - and us Magical Girls give you enough energy to make that viable, all across the universe, right? And you're an interstellar civilization anyways, right?"
Did Kyubey taste like a marshmallow? If Kyubey tasted like a marshmallow and licked himself, would he taste marshmallows?
"Again, a sufficient approximation."
"So why aren't you trying to use your vast resources to improve your ability to farm Magical Girls? You could take mass - from star lifting or from Magical Girls, ether way - and use it to build a dyson bubble, or an orbital-ring habitat, and then you would have way, way, way more habitable space for humans to live on. Building dyson spheres to tide off entropy, with less Magical Girl farming than you would otherwise need, at least until the stars run down. Stuff like that. It seems... kind of... incompetent, that you haven't?"
"And what makes you think that we haven't built any of these things?"
"Just the fact that we can't see any of them in the night sky?" Sabrina rolled her eyes. "Someone would have... noticed..."
Kyubey, who had only moments earlier been lecturing Sabrina about the imporance of the masquerade, said nothing, its tail flicking back and forth.
"...no, you're kidding! What, did you fake the moon landings, too?"
"No, that would be absurd. It was Magical Girls who faked the moon landings."
"...and that's what would happen if we ever tried to talk philosophy and ethics with Kyubey," Sabrina said, nodding to Madoka. "You see, the thing is, this universe is actually broken, so even if our status quo sucks, it's going to turn out that for some arbitrary reason this is the best of all possible worlds from Kyubey's utilitarian perspective."
"But... isn't that functionally indistinguishable from an after-the-fact rationalization?"
"Yes."
