Morality plays and the lessons contained within are written by the victors and while they provide meat for discussion, they're not the sum total of society. That's plain enough and I think we can both agree that history is more than just parables, but you yourself began this by using the British war experience as a way to teach a lesson.

[Garak pauses for a moment to smile.]

What I do find particularly interesting is that were any Cardassian to listen to your little lesson, they would be certain that the moral is one praising the value of persistence and ingenuity; and yet, you say that the human interpretation is to move forward beyond hard times.

Curious, indeed. As you so rightly have said, "it all depends on how you choose to look at it."