[ This time, Jamie knows that her motives would be permissible in the eyes of others, if only because Kayden has factored in (along with Sherlock, a vague concern for his sensibilities). She expects empathy in this venture, if only because the CDC is a force united by corruption.
It's everything she hates about humanity, things that she thought herself far above. At least she's still more complex (in her own eyes). ]
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
In a war, we fight the enemy, called such for good reason or so one hopes. Here, we fight the innocent, those too good or too weak to join us and save themselves. I think that's a very different thing. Of course, that conclusion implies that the ends justify the means, an often dangerous notion.
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
Willing versus wanting is an even more dangerous distinction to make, Monsieur. As a philosopher, I must ask: do motives justify the means and ends? After all, willing or wanting, it doesn't make anyone less dead.
I am no philosopher, Mademoiselle, but a soldier. Killing is a messy business, no matter what the means or motive.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
To be here is not something I wanted, yet to dissent would place all I know and love in danger. I cannot do that. Nor could I stand idly by while others like me were put in harm's way. I don't like the job we do, or anything about this.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
I try to make the best I can with what I've been given. I imagine you will, too.
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It's everything she hates about humanity, things that she thought herself far above. At least she's still more complex (in her own eyes). ]
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
In a war, we fight the enemy, called such for good reason or so one hopes. Here, we fight the innocent, those too good or too weak to join us and save themselves. I think that's a very different thing. Of course, that conclusion implies that the ends justify the means, an often dangerous notion.
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
Willing versus wanting is an even more dangerous distinction to make, Monsieur. As a philosopher, I must ask: do motives justify the means and ends? After all, willing or wanting, it doesn't make anyone less dead.
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I am no philosopher, Mademoiselle, but a soldier. Killing is a messy business, no matter what the means or motive.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
To be here is not something I wanted, yet to dissent would place all I know and love in danger. I cannot do that. Nor could I stand idly by while others like me were put in harm's way. I don't like the job we do, or anything about this.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
I try to make the best I can with what I've been given. I imagine you will, too.
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I intend to.
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.or
We've found ourselves in a moral quandary, and I can only help that we'll carve another way out, eventually.
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I hope so too.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Perhaps we'll make it happen, if enough of us want it to.
help = hope. oh phone tags!
With enough faith, patience, and shrewdness, I'd say that it's possible.
[ patience is the hardest part, really. ]
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That's what you want, then - to be away from here, to end all of this?
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to find the unique and surprising, the genuine. ]
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
Isn't that what everyone wants?
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Someone who doesn't want to answer, that's who. ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
No. Not particularly. Not everyone was tricked into coming here, some chose it. And wanted something, in return.
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Well, I want something, too.
FROM: moriarty.jamie@cdc.org
But I want it on my terms.
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And what are your terms, Mademoiselle?