text; 3/11, evening

[phoenix_temple]

What do you think the percentage chance is that some of us are going to wind up in government basements getting experimented on?

I really want to know, I have to place my bets here and decide if I'm going to tell my mom about all this.

[There is one other thing she has to do though, and it's very important.

Very, very important.]

[Private to Marina; Audio]

I wanted to ask you a question. Can you meet me at [cafe] tonight?

Comments

[Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

Of course it is. Pretty much every religion out there says either love your neighbor or at least don't hate other people. It's generally considered bad. I'm sure everyone hates someone, but that doesn't make it okay.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Are you Catholic, like Marina?

[Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

No. My mom and I aren't really anything. Why?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Just wondering. Usually when people use religion to support morality they personally subscribe pretty strongly to some school of theological thought.

Re: [Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

Not always. I'm just saying that it's pretty widely believed that hating other people isn't a good thing. You don't have to like anyone, but you shouldn't hate them either.

voice

[infuser]

Terrible isn't exactly the right word though, is it? I mean, it could be worse and it's not as if...

[ a beat. ] Alright, i'll give you terrible. You can keep that word.

Re: voice

[phoenix_temple]

Well. We could've lost. That would've been worse.

voice

[infuser]

An optimist.

It certainly would've been. Especially since I don't know what losing would've entailed apart from incredibly bad things.

Re: voice

[phoenix_temple]

A lot more people would've died. Or maybe been enslaved to an alien race...

Re: voice

[infuser]

Or things none of us need to think about.

Re: voice

[phoenix_temple]

Well, we do. Just in case it's not over.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

The fantasy novels I read as a kid didn't help much either, so I suppose they wouldn't. But I guess it's not really fantasy anymore, for us OR anyone else in the world. We're at a point where it's not just us that's changing now. EVERYTHING will change, now.

[phoenix_temple]

Please don't remind me... I was really happy with how things were.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

I used to think I was.

...in all honesty, I'm not so sure, anymore.

[publicity]

i don't think i like either one, you know??? but if you say so... i guess it is better to be on humanity's good side, isn't it?

[phoenix_temple]

The last time things changed, Marina's teasing got worse, I had to start lying to my mom and I ended up almost dying like five times.

I don't think I'll survive much more change.

[phoenix_temple]

It has to be.

[publicity]

hehe yeah... we're human after all i guess.

thanks??? i hadn't thought of it that way

[phoenix_temple]

It's just the way things are now, I think... Sorry it's kinda depressing.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Is it wrong to hate someone like Adolf Hitler?

[Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

Someone with a better moral compass would probably say "You shouldn't fight fire with fire."

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

I feel that scarcely answers the question, if at all.

Re: [Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

He was the incarnation of evil, but--

Don't most people say that even if someone's awful you shouldn't hate them? Hate breeds hate or something?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

He was the incarnation of nothing, just like hate ultimately does nothing.

You pretty much are your actions. Hitler was just a man, and what he did cemented his place in history.

Re: [Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

You know, that's a really bad example and most people would find it really, really offensive that you asked that.