“There is always more.”
For any finite Will, perfect alignment with Law's direction is approachable without limit but never reachable in any finite span. Moral growth is therefore genuinely infinite — there is always a closer approach not yet made.
A limit, not a destination
Picture a sequence that converges toward a limit without ever reaching it in finitely many steps — narrowing the remaining distance again and again, forever closer, never coincident. That's the formal shape of asymptotic alignment. A Will can keep closing the agentic gap indefinitely; the gap can shrink toward zero without a moment where it becomes exactly zero.
Why this matters more than it first appears
Static perfection has a quiet problem: what would a perfectly aligned being do next, for the rest of eternity, with nothing left to close? Asymptotic alignment dissolves that question before it gets asked. On this account, there is always a nearer approach available, which means moral growth doesn't have a ceiling. It isn't a project with a completion date. It's a direction you can travel forever.
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