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reapsthewind[Chris is standing in her bedroom in Elian's house, near the back of the room, arms folded, leaning up against the wall]
I'm not here to join the chorus of "killing people is wrong! Killing Blood Keys is wrong!" because one, it'd be hypocritical of me, and two, it's not going to sway the opinion of the people doing it.
Instead, I'm going to take issue with your reasoning, your arguments, with the way you've gone about it, and the people you're targeting.
First, to those of you arguing that it's totally fine to kill Blood Keys because they're cyborgs? Fuck you. And if you dare say "Well, Chris, you're different! You still have emotions and compassion!" fuck you twice. Last I checked most of the Blood Keys still actually had those things, they're just also desperate stupid bastards. You say "well, it's okay because they're not human!" How many of us aren't human? What about the one guy who turned into a giant bug, or our zombie friend? Is it ok to kill them because oh, they're not human anymore? Fuck you. If you're going to kill Blood Keys, stop fucking moralizing that what you did was right because they weren't human. If you're going to have a reason, have it be that they're on the Enemy's side and working for them. Nothing more, nothing less.
[Despite the swearing, despite the impassioned nature of her speech, she actually sounds oddly calm. She's not shouting, at least, though her voice has taken on this exceptionally reedy, nasal edge. Well, more than usual.]
Speaking of that? Killing Blood Keys is about the most useless stupid shit you can pull right now. And trust me, I get it. A lot of us who have been here since day one? We're tired of just reacting to things. There's those of us--myself included--who would rather go on the offensive instead of just sitting here defending ourselves against the next batch of bullshit they come up with. But the Blood Keys? They're not the disease, they're a symptom. If they're being financed by the Enemy which THEY TOTALLY FUCKING ARE, then if you kill them, the Enemy will just pull up more stupid low-life poor slobs, offer them a way out, and send them as cannon fodder against us. You'll never be able to get rid of them that way, you have to attack the problem at its source. Furthermore--and I know this from experience--attacking them will just rile them up and give them a perfectly good reason to attack us.
I know, because I DID that. I murdered two of the bastards and what did I get for it? A horrible Echo and it led to the clinic being attacked. It was my fault. I fucked that up. If you go out wantonly murdering them, we'll have more incidents like that one. Learn from my stupid, horrible, godawful dumb mistakes.
If you want to make a real difference? Figure out who's behind the Blood Keys, and murder that guy. Then destroy the infrastructure they're using to keep the Keys organized, destroy the supply lines they're using to get the cybernetics to those kids, destroy the propaganda they're using to get to them. That'll solve the problem way faster than just running around like the Punisher.
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