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Date: October 14
From: Anonymous
If, in part of your job, you capture an intruder at your workplace and used them as a hostage to call out their comrades, who had previously been found intruding and trying to steal something very important that you can't allow get stolen because protecting it is part of your job, and one of the people you know want to keep that intruder as a guinea pig (though you know that they probably wouldn't treat the prisoner badly, per se), and another wants to kill the intruder and all their comrades, but you think neither is a great idea, what would you do? I did as I was told and let them handle the decision making because my job is everything I have back home and I couldn't risk getting fired, but what if you could choose? Would it make a difference if it's an adult or a kid? This isn't ethically speaking, or what one should do, but what you would do in a similar situation, without caring about that.
[ So he recently remembered this scenario happening. He knows his decision wouldn't change because, his work in the military was everything that he had when he was alive, but if he'd had options..... He doesn't know what he'd have done then. Maybe that's why he's posting this question. ]
From: Anonymous
If, in part of your job, you capture an intruder at your workplace and used them as a hostage to call out their comrades, who had previously been found intruding and trying to steal something very important that you can't allow get stolen because protecting it is part of your job, and one of the people you know want to keep that intruder as a guinea pig (though you know that they probably wouldn't treat the prisoner badly, per se), and another wants to kill the intruder and all their comrades, but you think neither is a great idea, what would you do? I did as I was told and let them handle the decision making because my job is everything I have back home and I couldn't risk getting fired, but what if you could choose? Would it make a difference if it's an adult or a kid? This isn't ethically speaking, or what one should do, but what you would do in a similar situation, without caring about that.
[ So he recently remembered this scenario happening. He knows his decision wouldn't change because, his work in the military was everything that he had when he was alive, but if he'd had options..... He doesn't know what he'd have done then. Maybe that's why he's posting this question. ]
from: Li Tieguai
Is there a reason why the only two options are experimenting on them or killing them? You couldn't, for example, turn them over to the proper authorities or let them go?
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I suppose that it is, yes. But I felt like I had to ask it.
In this case we were, sort of, part of the authorities. In a sense. In this case. At least there. If we let them go without doing anything at all about them, they would definitely come back, it was already the second time they tried to break in, too. To be honest there are some pieces still missing but.... When you repeatedly break into military bases it can get a little
complicated. The professor wanted to keep her and her comrades because they are unusual and he wants to understand them and how they suddenly became different from normal humans.
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It's more of a surprise that he's starting to remember.]
Ah. I've never been in a situation like that, but I think it does sound as though you did your duty. If they'd try again upon being released, then releasing them isn't an option, after all, and between death and being experimented on...
I suppose it depends on the experiment, but neither sounds like a pleasant fate, does it?
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Doing my duty was what I was supposed to do since it's well, my duty. Doing as I'm told certainly makes things easier, but sometimes it still makes me wonder. Some people would surely not agree with either decision no matter the circumstances and I can understand that perspective. This particular intruder D4 had caught was a just kid and most of her comrades were probably teens so that wouldn't make matters easier. I have killed children before, but they were soldiers. Kids shouldn't be forced to be soldiers but in some parts of the world they unfortunately are. But I don't think that these ones are, even if I'm not sure. I would do as told, yes, but it still feels a bit different.
Yeah it doesn't. I really don't think that Professor Horner would do anything really bad, but I also don't remember enough about to know for sure. Still, if you ever happen to encounter him you should not tell him that you're not human.
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Sometimes, there's no good path of action. You do what you can live with having done.
And thank you for the warning. Should I run into him, I'll keep it quiet.
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You're right. If only life was simpler though.
I'll warn you if I spot him. But he's short and eccentric, generally wears a lab coat, stands out a lot.
[ He could have said "easily distracted with pudding" except he doesn't remember that yet. ]
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Ha ha. And in any case, I'm glad you're not looking for judgment or agreement. Your decision can't be changed, after all.
Life is so rarely simple, it's worth embracing it when it is.
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Yeah it can't, well I wouldn't change it anyway but what's done is done and all that.
That is truth worth poetry.
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Though I can understand a bit.
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[It hadn't ever really improved, at least, not until his ablution.]
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In general, though... I'd been causing some problems for the Heavens. My first goddess disappeared immediately after the worst of it, and my second god after I'd started to get involved again.
Since then, I've accepted that we don't control who comes and goes, but at the time, I feared they were being punished for my sins.
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That's not a strange thing to believe. Even when one's been told that it's not under our control, it can be hard to come to terms with at first.
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I can't blame you for worrying. But he's been here a long time, which is encouraging.
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It is, yet it's something that can't really be controlled here so, well. But it was worst around the one month mark.
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I do remember how that felt. I'm sorry.
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