"It is wrong." The words inject cold realism into that ideal. "It was that thinking that allowed the tragedy to occur to begin with, and will allow it to repeat."

Perhaps it was normal for the prince and princess to want a future with each other. Love, or what passes for it, was meant to be normal. However, telling themselves that, and putting that above everything else, was what made them forget the people destroyed by their carelessness of anything but each other.