[A]ny account of “living well” necessitates asking difficult questions about what needs to change in order to make life better. Asking questions about what needs to change is based on the realization that my life or the life of others is not all that it could be; to thrive, we will have to face head on the need to change. And this brings me to ask questions about, on the one hand, how to live truthfully and meaningfully in the midst of suffering, scarcity, and oppression; and on the other hand, to ask whether my well-being is built off the dispossession or oppression of others. If it is, then my life needs to radically change. To draw on scriptural motifs, ethical reflection necessitates asking what it means to live righteously in Babylon — and what it means to live righteously if it turns out we are the Babylonians. For in as much as we might identify with the prophets or a figure of liberation like Moses, we must also be ready to recognize ourselves as standing in the place of Pharoah.*