bixing the science king (
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voidshift
2023-02-26 04:36 am (UTC)
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Doesn't mean I want to face things
all
the time, frankly. I've done enough of it.
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engineers
2023-02-26 04:42 am (UTC)
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Just because you turn away from them doesn't mean they stop.
[ so. ]
Even if I said it, you already knew by then. We all did. Is that really ignoring it, in the first place?
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voidshift
2023-02-26 04:43 am (UTC)
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...I don't know. Suppose I was hoping if we didn't all acknowledge it, it wouldn't...
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engineers
2023-02-26 04:55 am (UTC)
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That's not how that works.
[ his voice softens, at least. ]
It never is.
Even if it was, we would've voted for someone who did nothing. Based on a popularity contest.
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voidshift
2023-02-26 05:04 am (UTC)
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It still doesn't sit right. I don't think he would have done it intentionally.
[his ears twitch, hair tentacles writhing.]
...wouldn't feel good in either case, I think, since someone who didn't
do
anything is the alternative.
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engineers
2023-02-26 02:02 pm (UTC)
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No. And in the end, what we're asked to do here is to make a cruel choice - there is no abstaining. We have to make the choice that we can live with.
[ a pause, here. ]
...Or in this case, the choice he can live with. I wouldn't want to live with the guilt of it, if I were in his shoes, either.
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voidshift
2023-02-26 04:50 pm (UTC)
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...well, I didn't want to live with condemning him for it. Not worth it.
It was easier with the other two.
[this one, though-- he doesn't need more things that badly.]
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[ so. ] Even if I said it, you already knew by then. We all did. Is that really ignoring it, in the first place?
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[ his voice softens, at least. ] It never is.
Even if it was, we would've voted for someone who did nothing. Based on a popularity contest.
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[his ears twitch, hair tentacles writhing.]
...wouldn't feel good in either case, I think, since someone who didn't do anything is the alternative.
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[ a pause, here. ] ...Or in this case, the choice he can live with. I wouldn't want to live with the guilt of it, if I were in his shoes, either.
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It was easier with the other two.
[this one, though-- he doesn't need more things that badly.]