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May 09, 2010 19:05

We all wish desperately to go home, as a matter of course. The key, I believe, to returning home is figuring out precisely why we've been brought here, and that means deducing what commonalities exist amongst us. And it seems that I have noticed one not uncommon trait among many here, and wish to know if it is indeed a pattern or merely a ( Read more... )

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[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 9 2010, 23:45:20 UTC

[have a soft chuckle] Define crime.

I've stolen before. Busked without a license. Trespassed, breaking and entering. Maybe a few other minor things that I'm forgetting.

Depending on how you care to define it, I guess you could add felonious assault and battery, possibly assault with a deadly, if you wanted to.

Lemme guess, you've never done anything?

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 9 2010, 23:47:05 UTC

Have you ever stood trial for any crime?

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 9 2010, 23:50:37 UTC

Pfft. Nope. Cops didn't get involved, and the rent-a-cops couldn't catch me. So. Ya know, free and clear.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 9 2010, 23:53:45 UTC

They didn't get involved on a count of felony assault? I assume they were - merely not able to link you to that.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 9 2010, 23:56:43 UTC

Dude, they stood by and watched. Of course, the guy I was feloniously assaulting had charged his way through three buildings and was trying to rob a bank at the time, so, they probably didn't care. Another time... well, let's just say they stood by and watched. It's not technically felonious assault if you're trying to save the city, or world, or universe, maybe?

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 00:19:24 UTC

They...Then they were failing to do their job.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 10 2010, 00:31:03 UTC

Well, not exactly. Where I'm from, I was considered one of a group of superheroes. I mean, if you've got a guy who weighs about five hundred pounds and once he starts charging can, and has, knocked down a good chunk of the buildings in a city, and a group shows up with some... extra abilities that can counter that guy's abilities, and they don't ask for pay, and save the lives of who knows how many people... would you arrest them for saving lives? Even if it means they feloniously assaulted the guy who would have killed just about anyone that got in his way without compunction.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 00:32:30 UTC

I would have attempted to stop him myself. As would be my duty.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 10 2010, 00:39:45 UTC

They'd tried, again and again. And he'd killed I don't know how many people, and injured countless others. So, instead, they started calling us because we didn't get nearly as hurt, and they could do crowd control to make sure others didn't get hurt.

We were superheroes. We handled the things that cops couldn't. Because we could and it was the right thing to do. Were some crimes committed? Technically maybe. Were we ever charged? No, because the cops knew that without us, they'd be at the mercy of the mutants that didn't give a shit about non-mutant life.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 00:54:26 UTC

Then they should have deputized you. Taken you in as part of the law enforcement structure.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 10 2010, 01:08:41 UTC

Ooooh no. They were quite happy to have us help them, but the minute we start acting like we're equal to them or anything, can't have that. There was a whole lotta politics behind it, but, pretty basically... there were a lot of people who weren't mutants that hated us. They... Well, there were mutant terrorists, but sometimes, the humans were worse.

Some of my crimes were committed before I became a superhero, so I could survive. But after, it was only in the commission of superheroing that I did anything.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:12:59 UTC

Then they were craven and cowardly. If they are going to permit you to assist in the apprehension of criminals, then it is their duty to be answerable for your acts. This means incorporating you into their structure. If they were not willing to do that, if they were not willing to risk themselves politically, then they could not call upon you. It is as simple as that.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 10 2010, 01:14:48 UTC

Yeah 'cause everythin' is just that simple.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:17:06 UTC

It is. In terms of this moral divide, it most certainly is.

[Voice//private//hackable] thelittlestbub May 10 2010, 01:18:27 UTC

I will let you go on thinking that. Feel free to keep thinking it. You don't know the reality in my world. I do.

[Voice//private//hackable] mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:24:32 UTC

Thank you for that statement of the obvious. Perhaps next you might be so kind as to inform me that I do not know the people in your world?

I know criminals, and I know crime, and I know procedure. I fail to see how this is such a radical departure from these things so as to be beyond my comprehension.

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