032 // [VIDEO] // Blue Butterfly Inc.: Now recruiting!

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[ All viewers who are taking a very close look at Dr Lamb's left hand today may spot the edge of the dressing on her arm. This is merely the measure taken against a minor burn injury and definitely not the beginning of a number of unpleasant long-term effects from something very stupid she did about three months ago

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[hi_blog]

Where do you plan to open these facilities? Tam-sensei's clinic?

[echo_of_utopia]

[ She nods. ]

I have been maintaining his clinic since he left.

[hi_blog]

Good. I'll bring those I discipline there, in that case.

[echo_of_utopia]

[ Wow. Now that is the true spirit of community. 8| ]

I appreciate your offer, Hibari, but...

Would you perhaps consider bringing those you are in conflict with to my psychiatric office instead? I believe we could find a way to resolve such situations without injury.

[hi_blog]

Perhaps you can explain to them why their behavior will not be tolerated while you mend them but there is no reason for me to be involved in that step.

[echo_of_utopia]

That may not necessarily be the case. Did others in the mansion ever express having similar problems with the people you discipline?

[hi_blog]

I don't care what others consider to be a violation.

[echo_of_utopia]

So the only one known to not tolerate their behaviour is you? Yet you don't believe the conflict is personal enough to warrant your participation in resolving it? Peacefully?

[hi_blog]

Right and wrong are subjective. Pain and punishment are not so blurry. If they cannot behave because they know right from wrong, than they will be admonished with much clearer ideas. It's not my job to teach public morals, just to enforce them.

[echo_of_utopia]

Punishment succeeds wrongdoing, but since wrongdoing is subjective the moral code of the punisher and the punished may not coincide.

Consequently those you discipline may not feel themselves being subjected to an enforcement of your values rather than an act of arbitrary violence towards them.

[hi_blog]

I can't make allowances for stupidity. If they see blind brutality in place of discipline then at least they will have learned to not crowd me.

[echo_of_utopia]

What if they do not learn their lesson?

[hi_blog]

Then they will continue to find it enforced against them.

[echo_of_utopia]

Without explanation?

[hi_blog]

Is it so hard to know when you've done something wrong?

[echo_of_utopia]

Right and wrong are subjective, is that not what you said? Those you attack may believe you to be the one committing a transgression.

That is why I suggested your participation in providing an explanation rather than violent enforcement of your rules.