For without this convention, wholehearted pursuit of the "public interest" would make justice pointless and unrestrained pursuit of "private interests" would leave justice in ruins.
Despite her need to be recognized, to be in a pattern, our heroine is incapable of such a wholehearted embrace of her assigned place within the established power/knowledge system.
The second hit under the bridge with a dull thud, much louder than the duds heard only on sonar but lacking the whacking noise which accompanies a wholehearted explosion.