008 - [Text] Boredom, boredom

[triggered_it]

Welcome to our new arrivals. I mean that sincerely. The usual sarcasm is redundant at this point. The same comments are made every month, and it gets tiring to hear after a while. You'll learn for yourselves how this place operates soon enough.

To everyone else, I believe we're overdue for another flood. I suggest battening down the metaphorical

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[cautionarystory]

So, like, a lot of those depend on whether or not we care what's the right thing to do.

[triggered_it]

Do you not?

[cautionarystory]

Oh, sure I do. Construction worker, five schoolkids, somebody singing badly in the shower, I'm practically a nervous wreck about it all.

[triggered_it]

They're hypotheticals. You're not meant to care, you're meant to think. Notice how principles change.

[cautionarystory]

So, saying I'd kill the worker 'cause it was easier than swerving to avoid him would fall where, exactly, on the scale of right answer to wrong answer?

[triggered_it]

Amoralism . . . and laziness.

[cautionarystory]

Laziness... expediency... Same diff.

[triggered_it]

Expedience implies some level of practicality.

[cautionarystory]

I'm nothing if not practical.