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[cactusy]

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[cactusy]

what, you think I shouldn't respect him for it?

[weartearrust]

I feel people should be judged by what they do, not what other people do.

[cactusy]

me, too.

but I understand risk calculation. I understand prioritizing someone's safety over someone else getting their job of choice.

[weartearrust]

Ruining a career over a hypothetical though, that's iffy to me.

[cactusy]

even a hypothetical with high stakes? patients' lives?

[weartearrust]

Yep. See, it isn't as if you actually did anything to warrant it. You're no more likely to get bored and cause problems than anyone else, but you got singled out. ANY young doctor can put patients at risk but they're not all being tossed out.

If this same guy got you involved in shadier stuff, he didn't oust you because of patient fears, Shaw. He did it becuz he wanted you working in more hazardous areas.

[cactusy]

Nah, different guy. I think he'd say my future activities proved his point, though.

[weartearrust]

Well, when you take away what someone wants to do, they usually start doing other stuff. That's not exactly a win in his favor.

[cactusy]

and I think making that jump is nuts. but almost everyone who's heard the story gets offended on my behalf, so maybe I'm actually the one who's nuts.

I appreciate people willing to make tough choices. and I appreciate people willing to put doing the right thing over someone's feelings, or even their own feelings. but one thing I've learned over the past few years is that it's not too hard for that line of thinking to take a wrong turn. seems like the kind of thing you have experience with, too.

[weartearrust]

We're going by what we're told, you go by what you lived. The experience is going to be different.

Sometimes it is a call that has to be made. Sometimes it isn't. It's been part of my job before, and my life. What's the saying? 'The needs of the many' and all that? But there's always going to be nuance.

Maybe in the end turning you from doctor to Turk was a good thing. Maybe it wasn't, we can't speak to an alternate you that stayed on the medical path to find out.

[cactusy]

phrase it like that, and you're going to speak a flood into being.

[weartearrust]

Damn,let me require an addendum, we need BOTH at the SAME TIME to compare directly or it doesn't count.

And if it happens I want to spar with both of you.

[cactusy]

deal

question for you. kind of related. I wouldn't go back to working for the government even if that were possible. would you go back to Shinra?

[weartearrust]

I don't know. It'd be easy to say 'of course not!' but it would depend on a lot of things. It's my whole life's work, and things supposedly get better for the planet a few years after I die.

[cactusy]

I wouldn't want you saying "of course not" unless you actually meant it. blowing smoke up my ass doesn't do anybody any good.

play out some of those factors that would affect your decision for me?

[weartearrust]

The usuals. I joined to do good and help people, not be a monster or help end the world. I don't think company policy allows nonhumans or deserters so probably pointless to speculate.

[cactusy]

no nonhumans at all? why?

[weartearrust]

There are zero nonhostile sapient species on the planet besides humans.

It's just people, animals, and the things that kill people.

[cactusy]

got it. they're not built to consider the blurry edge cases like you.

I don't think it's pointless to think about this stuff, though. it's basically just another way to think about your wants and motives.

do you know what helped make the planet better?




or

I guess what will help make the planet better

this time travel multiverse crap always makes verb tenses weird

[weartearrust]

Near as I can tell, forcing people to realize "the planet is alive" was not a euphemism, it's literal. Self-will and planning and everything. Made people realize they can't keep screwing around.

[cactusy]

and Shinra was cool with that?

is cool with that

[weartearrust]

No idea! But the impression I've been getting is the planet didn't give them a choice in the matter, cooperate or get erased by titanic planet-created antibodies designed to get rid of the virus that is 'you'.

[cactusy]

who'd you have this conversation with? Fair?

[weartearrust]

All of them, in pieces. It's understandably difficult to sit someone down and ask for the details of the most painful events of their lives.

[cactusy]

does that include Kadaj and Yazoo? you have the patience of a saint.