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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; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 00:47:55 UTC

I don't know. Who decides what a crime is?

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 00:49:36 UTC

The state or governing authority.

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 00:50:34 UTC

What if there isn't one?

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 00:58:50 UTC

In a state of anarchy? Then it becomes rather more difficult. Usually, even in periods of anarchy, smaller loci of power, as it were, form; even if there is not an overarching state, there is usually a local government or even a family unit. Each unit determines what is criminal, unforgivable. In the absence of that, however, what is a crime becomes something of a thought-experiment and no better. There are certain crimes, of course, automatically designated as such - murder, larceny, assault, et cetera, but when one becomes more specific, it becomes difficult to say. In the end, it becomes what you would deem a transgression.

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 01:17:21 UTC

[Long pause, because he only understood a bit of that. Not the best teacher to the kiddos, Edgeworth.]

What if it's not anarchy, it's just...I don't know...no one around to tell you what's a crime?

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:22:50 UTC

That is anarchy.

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 01:25:08 UTC

Even if it's calm?

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:31:30 UTC

Naturally, yes. Anarchy is a state of lawlessness. Chaos is a state of disorder.

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 01:45:40 UTC

I guess not, then.

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 01:50:43 UTC

"Guess not"? That you have not committed a crime, or...?

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 02:07:57 UTC

Can't commit a crime if there are no laws, right? You just said so.

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 02:13:49 UTC

No. The state defines a crime; if there is no state, then the family does so; if there is no family, then the individual does so. There are always boundaries, and when there are boundaries there is the possibility to cross them.

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 02:44:44 UTC

I did what the Organization wanted me to do. I didn't know anyone else. We weren't family, but they didn't think any of it was a crime.

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 02:47:02 UTC

Which organization?

voice; pullsheavendown May 10 2010, 02:56:35 UTC

Nothing you've heard of.

voice; mentis_reae May 10 2010, 02:59:21 UTC

Very well; then an organization of what nature?

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