Private - Prefect needs to shut his pie hole >(bythe_booksJanuary 18 2009, 19:53:13 UTC
...how can I make this very, very plain to you?
Withholding your services from somebody who has an established precedent of using every item she has requested from others FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSES OF HURTING OR KILLING SOMEBODY ELSE, isn't punishing them. Not allowing a violent criminal access to potential weapons: NOT A PUNISHMENT. And it's not like I'm pretending to be a fucking mind reader here: this is something she's done TIME AND TIME AGAIN-- even if it's not to YOU-- not something "she hasn't actually done yet."
If I could trust you to use just a little bit of judgement, a little bit of common sense in which requests you choose to fulfill, I wouldn't be making these threats. But I can't. If she asked you for a knife, you'd give it to her, and would you care at all if she used it to hurt somebody? Would it prevent you from making the very same trade again in the future? Be honest here.
As long as your profits take priority over the safety of yourself and others, I am going to be a right pain in your arse, and you're going to have to deal with it.
Private - FINE.buywithmeJanuary 18 2009, 20:09:33 UTC
I... I do know that. It's just hard to come up with reasons to defend why still wanting to sell dangerous things to anyone who wants them is the right thing to do. I just still think it is. It's what everything was built on, not restricting anyone, not letting your own preferences or fears or knowledge about someone get in the way of what it is you do, of the function you exist to fulfil.
It's not that I don't care, I just have an obligation to be professional. It's not even that I'm not upset about the prospect of you taking everything away from me, It just doesn't make any difference. No matter how it effects me or her or anyone else, I am an alpha plus, and I am a servant of the Factory, and I must function in accordance with the Factory regulations and uphold the codes of impartiality and universally constant consumerism.
Private - .....I still love you, Prefect :cbythe_booksJanuary 18 2009, 20:22:08 UTC
If you can't come up with the reasons, then maybe there aren't any. Maybe you don't really think it's the right thing to do, but can't bring yourself to admit it because it goes against everything you were raised to believe.
But sometimes what you were raised to believe is wrong.
Prefect, there isn't any Factory here. You're going to have to get used to that. It doesn't mean that you have to abandon your purpose, it just means that you'll have to change, adapt.
You have competition here now, for example, where you didn't before. A rival seller. Do your Factory regulations even begin to tell you how to adapt your techniques to that?
Things change. It's human not to like it, but what makes us great is our ability to overcome hardships, to change in reaction to them, to become stronger.
Private - Then maybe you should give him a hug? He'd like that. Honest.buywithmeJanuary 19 2009, 15:45:50 UTC
No, it is the right thing to do! The Factory-- it might not be a great driving force on the barge, but lots of things on the barge aren't right! And if you knew it, if you understood...
The Factory is the great monument that stands at the end of all history, the entirety of human development and achievement and understanding and commerce ends with it, It is the mother and father of generations of enlightened workers and consumers and it works perfectly. It's huge and endless and it provides everything that we ever want or need and all we have to do is work, and buy, and there's never anything else because there is nothing else that's needed. Comrade, Consumer, there is nothing greater or purer than this, it is what everything was built from and it is the force that sustains it and the Factory is the greatest and purest form of this greatest and purest action. So we work. So we function. So we don't change the rules just because we don't understand them, because they were made by something better than we are.
I have changed since I came here Comrade, I've not had a whole lot of choice about it, but I've changed. I'm just trying not to change too much.
Withholding your services from somebody who has an established precedent of using every item she has requested from others FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSES OF HURTING OR KILLING SOMEBODY ELSE, isn't punishing them. Not allowing a violent criminal access to potential weapons: NOT A PUNISHMENT. And it's not like I'm pretending to be a fucking mind reader here: this is something she's done TIME AND TIME AGAIN-- even if it's not to YOU-- not something "she hasn't actually done yet."
If I could trust you to use just a little bit of judgement, a little bit of common sense in which requests you choose to fulfill, I wouldn't be making these threats. But I can't. If she asked you for a knife, you'd give it to her, and would you care at all if she used it to hurt somebody? Would it prevent you from making the very same trade again in the future? Be honest here.
As long as your profits take priority over the safety of yourself and others, I am going to be a right pain in your arse, and you're going to have to deal with it.
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It's not that I don't care, I just have an obligation to be professional. It's not even that I'm not upset about the prospect of you taking everything away from me, It just doesn't make any difference. No matter how it effects me or her or anyone else, I am an alpha plus, and I am a servant of the Factory, and I must function in accordance with the Factory regulations and uphold the codes of impartiality and universally constant consumerism.
Even if sometimes it seems like a bad idea.
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But sometimes what you were raised to believe is wrong.
Prefect, there isn't any Factory here. You're going to have to get used to that. It doesn't mean that you have to abandon your purpose, it just means that you'll have to change, adapt.
You have competition here now, for example, where you didn't before. A rival seller. Do your Factory regulations even begin to tell you how to adapt your techniques to that?
Things change. It's human not to like it, but what makes us great is our ability to overcome hardships, to change in reaction to them, to become stronger.
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The Factory is the great monument that stands at the end of all history, the entirety of human development and achievement and understanding and commerce ends with it, It is the mother and father of generations of enlightened workers and consumers and it works perfectly. It's huge and endless and it provides everything that we ever want or need and all we have to do is work, and buy, and there's never anything else because there is nothing else that's needed. Comrade, Consumer, there is nothing greater or purer than this, it is what everything was built from and it is the force that sustains it and the Factory is the greatest and purest form of this greatest and purest action. So we work. So we function. So we don't change the rules just because we don't understand them, because they were made by something better than we are.
I have changed since I came here Comrade, I've not had a whole lot of choice about it, but I've changed. I'm just trying not to change too much.
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