Hmhmhmhmhm. Suppose you were living isolated underground and had ample evidence that you were the most powerful thing around after spending so long adapting to it, and saw creatures whom you empathized with so strongly repeatedly falling in by accident. You have the resources to give them marginally acceptable lives there, but not the resources to get them out safely. Every last one of them so far has been ignorant or careless of the danger ahead and perished ignominiously after you allowed them their choice; they may well be perfectly knowledgeable about some other world, but as a result they get overconfident in this one, and they can't think of any reason to listen to you.
Would your emotions be fully stable after all that?
And do you allow it the next time?
(Perhaps keeping in mind that the question comes from someone whose predecessor, in the same physical form, seems to have had some form of posttraumatic augh whose trigger(-ish) was basically “foundational aspects of human civilization”, of course.)
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Date: 2013-06-27 06:50 pm (UTC)Would your emotions be fully stable after all that?
And do you allow it the next time?
(Perhaps keeping in mind that the question comes from someone whose predecessor, in the same physical form, seems to have had some form of posttraumatic augh whose trigger(-ish) was basically “foundational aspects of human civilization”, of course.)