Achebe's observation cuts deeper than mere cultural relativism—he's describing how the *same act* can be morally inverted depending on where you stand, which means sincere people operating from different traditions will inevitably collide. Most of us assume disagreement stems from one side being enlightened and the other benighted, but Achebe suggests the friction itself is structural, almost geometric. When a Western company outsources labor to a poorer nation, executives see economic opportunity and job creation; workers in the exporting country experience it as dignity and wages; yet manufacturing towns in the West experience it as abandonment. Everyone can be right, and everyone can be harmed—which is why judgment alone never resolves these tangles.