entry forty five: Swing is bored, but won't say it aloud.

[pleasesmirk]

Shame. I was enjoying the relative order. Bloody wizards. It's good to be back alive.

On another note, I had a question!

Aliens, or not. Who on board would you call an 'alien' - I mean, given that we're on no specific planet, despite the overwhelming majority of Roundworlders here - would you argue that Doctor Hix and I (and possibly some others

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[doeswhatido]

[[You died and lost him his swords he's still not happy about that BUT. He clears his throat. And out comes:]]

His name's Neville.

written.

[pleasesmirk]

[Swing is still sorry about that. REALLY.]

Oh, right, is that it? I'd missed him in my notes whilst... yes.

[doeswhatido]

[[THEN...BRING THEM BACK. WITH YOUR MIND POWERS. AND DON'T TORTURE ANYONE WITH THEM ON THE WAY.]]

Yes, Neville Longbottom. Do you have something against wizards, Captain?

[pleasesmirk]

[BUT SWING HAS NO FANCY POWERS. SORRY.]

I don't trust them. I don't have anything against them as people, I just don't trust their powers and the way they tend to weild them.

[wandthief]

Are you still ranting against wizards... Just as well I did not run into you yesterday, isn't it.

[pleasesmirk]

It was hardly a rant. I said 'bloody wizards' and that I didn't want one in charge of me.

Just as well, because from what I hear, you'd have proved me right.

[wandthief]

I'd have taught you a lesson.

[pleasesmirk]

Oh, would you? Like all wizards 'teach lessons'? By waving their powers around like they're some kind of free pass to getting someone to do exactly as you want, despite anything they say on the matter?

Spare me your education if you would.

[doctor_j_crane]

I see you've been thinking about our conversation. Did it worry you?

[pleasesmirk]

No, some parts of it just simply offended me.

[doctor_j_crane]

I don't see why. It wasn't particularly offensive material. Maybe you're just overly sensitive?

[pleasesmirk]

Maybe I'm just sick of the lack of interplanetary cultural relativism here.

[a_bit_put_upon]

Everyone is alien to someone. Even if, perchance, they hail from the same planet.

[pleasesmirk]

But if everyone's alien to somebody, surely that also can mean that nobody is alien to anyone - if we expect people to be 'alien', then that no longer becomes alien.

[a_bit_put_upon]

I suppose you can call that ideology something of an aspiration for me- if so many worlds, so many civilisations could come to terms with the fact that every sentience is primarily (relatively) alive and functional, then there would hardly be a fraction of the strife that exists now.

Alien is a relative term, anyway. I don't consider you alien, even though you come not only from a different world, but likely a different reality entirely. You think and pass judgement, as any other person here. I don't see how your origin effects your basic ability to do so. Any other deviation is a product of your society, not your physiology.

[pleasesmirk]

...I suppose that's what I was trying to ask. Because I got the impression Roundworlders threw around the term to mean 'someone not from Earth', even here. So I was curious how people really did define it.

Thank you, Doctor.

[sonotahunter]

No one, specifically. The very definition of a thing being 'alien' precludes the right of anyone here to call anything else by that title; none of us are native to the ship, except perhaps the Admiral, so either all of us are alien or none of us are.

[pleasesmirk]

That's what I was thinking. Thank you. Nothing else makes any sense, right?