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[The screen clicks on, and Naoya is staring at it rather blandly. If one looks at his surroundings, they could see he's sprawled over a bed, a laptop nearby. This part is Filtered from Kiyoshi, and is utterly unhackable.]Hmn...I'm curious, Somarium. I have two questions...answer both, if you will
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No to the first. No free will...it's like being a frakking machine or something.
[A cloud of smoke obscures her face from view as she exhales. She's not answering that second one, just in case.]
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[Excellent. People here are smarter than he'd hoped.]
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And... I want to protect my friends, as well as the future of the world I was brought to.
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Interesting question, Na-o-ya. [ A slight smirk, and he looks a bit distant for a moment before he smirks back at the camera. Why hello there. ]
People are creatures of habit, really. Take away their free will and force them to do something each day under the pretense that they're guarded and protected? Why, they'd simply go mad, I'd guess. People like that little edge in life. That little dangerous 'what if'. It's one of humanity's little sins, really. Free will is like air to them.
[ A pause, and now pondering. ]
Though, you've got me thinking. Who are we, as 'individuals' to protect anyone else? It's their own free will driving their decisions and lives. What right do we have to protect anything, let alone a city, in my case? [ He may just be acting satirical, or he may be completely serious. ] Though, I certainly hope you'd know the truth.
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[Naoya chuckles, closing his eyes.]
A thing or a person can be protected in a variety of ways...not all of these curtail free will. It's a fine line to balance.
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[ A soft yawn. ]
It'll always come back to nip you in the behind, no matter what form you use.
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The second option.
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And ask yourself--who has the right to decide what is for someone's own good? To do something for someone else's own good, particularly against their wishes...isn't that the worst sort of condescension?
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People do things without having 'the right' to all the time. Just because it is presumptuous or isn't right doesn't make it a less valid option. And aren't there people out there who would surrender their right to choose for themselves, anyway?
For that matter, people choose, of their own free will, to take away the free will of others every day.
To actually answer the question, no. I don't think I would make that decision about an entire population--or the entirety of humanity itself. But if I could protect others by taking away the free will of certain individuals who would be choosing to endanger the free will of others anyway, I would.
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