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prince_organa in sages_of_chaos

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Jul 16, 2006 22:18

Enter one confused blond teenager, stage left. Luke, meet sign. Sign, Luke.

Well then. Why the hell not?

"Is there any difference between retaliation and revenge?" He looks around. "And since when does this base have extra dimensions?"

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nexus_packrat July 17 2006, 05:25:37 UTC

"Yeah. Which side of it you're on. They just happen. Dunno why."

prince_organa July 17 2006, 05:28:38 UTC

"Which side?" He frowns. "I'm not entirely sure what you mean."

nexus_packrat July 17 2006, 05:30:51 UTC

"An action'll look like retaliation, all justified and stuff, to the person doing it. And it'll look like revenge, crazy and out of proportion, to the person it's being done to."

prince_organa July 17 2006, 05:36:47 UTC

"What if the action you're retaliating for was out of proportion in the first place?"

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bink_atauna July 17 2006, 06:33:17 UTC

Revenge is a dish best served cold, while retaliation is sort of a straight-from-the-oven, ready-to-go kind of thing.

prince_organa July 17 2006, 06:38:15 UTC

He just looks bemused. More food metaphors yey! "And the middle ground would be reheated leftovers, I suppose?"

bink_atauna July 17 2006, 07:00:54 UTC

I guess that'd work. Of course, there's also preemptive action, which would be a bit underdone, and the an age-old vendetta you can't remember the reason for?

That would be the dish left in the cooler so long it's grown a sentient mould colony.

*There. Consider the analogy stretched to breaking point.*

prince_organa July 17 2006, 07:23:03 UTC

To applaud or back away slowly? Decisions, decisions. "At least you haven't brought up frappachinos. That's something."

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the_harper1 July 18 2006, 03:03:54 UTC

Retaliation is tit for tat, fairly equal exchange of badness for badness. Revenge is retaliation but making it really hurt 'em. A lot of times it takes more time and planning since you have to make it extra special.

World killers? Deserve Revenge 3.0: This Time It'll Really Hurt. Bastards. My world was destroyed to make a point.

prince_organa July 18 2006, 05:00:52 UTC

He keeps his expression calm and his voice from shaking. Barely. "Then you and I have something in common. My world was destroyed as a test. I'm sorry, for whatever that's worth."

the_harper1 July 18 2006, 11:24:15 UTC

Thanks. I mean, yeah, your sympathy can't bring Earth back, but it's good to have somebody agree it was a crap thing to happen. Most of the people I meet back in my area of space just kind of shrug since otherwise my planet hadn't been important in years. Except to the people trying to live on it.