Seventh Comet

[whats_a_char]

All that, and we still didn't even get him, huh? At least the Orb and PLANT pilots here got some good therapy out of it, I guess.

[Private, hackable maybe if you're Amuro or Kamille

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[driftingpersona]

So I take it this was a case where the right thing to do conflicted with the best thing to do and as a result neither happened?

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[whats_a_char]

That's it exactly. I never thought an A-LAWS commander would have a point, least of all that guy, but he did when he said an all-out attack was the only way to catch Djibril. And Councilor Athha had an equally good point when she told us to get the hell out. If we'd done one or the other, maybe things would have turned out less poorly. Trying to choose neither...

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[driftingpersona]

Ended in a pointless fight which essentially accomplished nothing except the injury and death of a number of people who were only incidentally related to the situation.

...People need to stop thinking with their hearts sometimes and use their brains. Stop thinking about what the outcome they want is and start thinking about whether that outcome is even possible.

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[whats_a_char]

Tough to make kids understand that. You seem pretty level-headed for your age.

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[driftingpersona]

Truth is, I never really had a childhood. If I act childish its because I choose to, not because I am like that intrinsically.

But back to the point. It makes me wonder how some people can sleep at night. This entire place is covered with crazy double standards.

Like, Tetsuya is talking about how he killed Lee, bragging about it really. But... what exactly did that accomplish? You said it yourself, Lee was right. And what happened? He was killed, essentially just because we didn't like him.

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[whats_a_char]

Well, he was killed because he was a spoiled brat and couldn't play by the rules, right or not. If a man goes out of his way to make enemies, he should be prepared for someone to come and kill him.

Not that our good Deputy Captain had his priorities totally in order either, mind you.

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[driftingpersona]

Well, yes. But I don't see you saying that it was justified, just that it happened and you can see the reasons for it.

That's my problem with it, not the fact that we do things like that, but the fact that then we come back and act like when other people do it it's this giant problem. The double standard itself is what bothers me.

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[whats_a_char]

And that's what happens when you have heroes instead of soldiers. All the problems get projected onto the "villains", creating artificial divisions and not allowing people to recognize their own shortcomings.

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[driftingpersona]

And then people ask things like "what could we have done different?" When a lot of the time the answer is simply the opposite question, "what did we do that we shouldn't have?"

One of the most important thing that my father taught me, despite his being a jerk, is that inaction IS an action. The choice to not do anything is not the same thing as the choice to give up.

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[whats_a_char]

The problem is that we don't trust other people to make the right or the correct decisions, so the GDF policy seems to be to take decisive action and pray. I can respect that, since it's one of the few organizations in the world not obviously led by an insane demagogue, but sometimes the GDF is simply on the wrong track.

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[driftingpersona]

Agreed.

It's not an easy problem to address either, because everything else aside, the world does need organizations like the GDF. Organizations which act as checks and balances on everything else. I guess the main problem with he GDF is there is no check to balance it. The A-LAWs could be, but we tend to just beat them up whenever we disagree.