Imagine the world was completely different, all because one thing was gone. All of a sudden, we don't have Money--never had Money, in fact. All of human history (and everyone else's, but let's take baby steps) is different because we never learned how to generally accept a thing as payment for all sorts of other things. We never randomly assigned easily-carried stuff more worth. Our governments never declared something as legal tender. We all still bartered for other goods and services. Keep the change.
Bad enough, and it could happen. Now what if that thing we lost was Hope?
And what if it happened an uncountable times (by definition) before, and we have no idea what the world could have been like?
I don't want to lose Ambition. I'm not a major practitioner, myself, but without it, no one would try to better their life. Plus, I think people might try to suck up to me, nowadays.
I don't want to lose Transgression. It's nice to break the rules, especially when too many of the rules were written by selfish pricks.
I don't want to get ride of anything. Too many things are tied together--annihilating one weakens the things close to it, and the world could be so different.
No offense, boss, but what the Hell is Colbrand, anyway?
~M
