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Jul 05, 2010 14:15

I did not thank those who assisted in research in those past weeks. Apologies; I shall do so now, and ask if those same individuals - and, indeed, others - would be willing to assist a bit more ( Read more... )

c: nara shikamaru, c: shiroe rei seki, c: rochelle, c: temari, c: daedalus yumeno, , c: sirius black, c: riku, c: replica riku, c: re-l mayer, †: watanuki kimihiro, c: jinx, !: miles edgeworth, c: ishida uryuu, †: kei yuki

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[voice] sequincy July 5 2010, 19:07:12 UTC

How soon do you expect to end this practice, if it all?

...And I doubt making it public is an issue, considering the weekly newspaper ad.

[voice] mentis_reae July 5 2010, 19:15:54 UTC

It will take a great number of months to win the first of these battles.

And this is a different sort of publicity.

[voice] sequincy July 5 2010, 19:46:01 UTC

I think 'months' is being liberal.

What sort?

[voice] mentis_reae July 5 2010, 19:50:21 UTC

The sort where people watch as their neighbors are forced into slavery. This will have none of the abstraction of some people, who go unidentified, being sold; no. This will reveal the very process of the thing.

[voice] sequincy July 5 2010, 20:40:47 UTC

Which will only be useful if they care.

[voice] mentis_reae July 5 2010, 20:46:42 UTC

They are human.

[voice] sequincy July 5 2010, 20:49:49 UTC

They're consumers.

[voice] mentis_reae July 5 2010, 20:53:48 UTC

Not everyone in the city owns a slave.

[voice] sequincy July 5 2010, 22:46:50 UTC

They hardly have to. They've been raised within a system that allows and promotes it as the commonplace.

[voice] mentis_reae July 5 2010, 23:37:26 UTC

Yes. But people do not become inured altogether to the suffering of others. That is why, in this system, the suffering is hidden from view.

[voice] sequincy July 6 2010, 17:32:40 UTC

We'll see.

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