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[resultofwar]

[Filtered away from Treize]

[The feed clicks on, but there's a short pause between it and Heero actually speaking.]

In the event that an inmate's crimes and reason for being here aren't obvious, even with the help of a file, how are they ever actually "redeemed"?

[There's a pause like he's going to say something else, but he switches off the feed instead.]

[Private to Ariadne]

Treize is here.

[Private to Cooper]

You spar?

[ooc: Still on hiatus, but Heero couldn't not say anything in response to Treize being here.]

Comments

[resultofwar]

Speaking from experience?

[collector]

You mean the planet-saving part? Not at all. I collect art and publish on theatrological theory, which is not exactly the sort of background that guides one to that kind of life. But I do have experience with people who fail to think their actions through. 'Not thinking things through' is a very popular pastime in my universe.

[resultofwar]

Why?

[collector]

Avoiding the obvious 'people are idiots' answer, I'll give you the real reason: life is messy and disordered. You can spend your whole life working towards something, only to realise you've been somebody else's puppet all along. Nobody can ever truly think their actions through, not completely. It's simply too much to ask. Life couldn't exist if people tried to do it. So they learn not to. They focus on certain consequences to filter out the noise. They focus only on their survival, on the well-beings of their friends and family, on their job, on the greater good—whatever it is. The focus that is necessary to function leads to a corresponding blindness to consequences lying outside that. Hence the problem. Not an inherent evil, but a dangerous, potentially self-destructive blindness.

[He is thinking a little bit about Gaheris here.]

I'm talking generalities here, of course. Some people are idiots, and others simply don't care.

If that was what you were asking? [When Heero gives a monosyllable question, Braxiatel picks the subject that seems most fruitful and rolls with it.]

[resultofwar]

Not exactly, but it's something to consider.

[collector]

What were you asking, if I may?

[resultofwar]

Why your universe specifically?

[collector]

Sorry, that was my sense of humour. Doubtless most universes are like that. I've seen little evidence to the contrary here.

[resultofwar]

I wish I could find that encouraging. [Which is sort of his sense of humor.]

[collector]

[The amusement is just under his voice.] Surely there's nothing discouraging about it.

[resultofwar]

Not particularly.