[ There's a beat where his fiddling stops, and he looks... thoughtful, turning that over. ]
Kano was innocent. [ A grim reminder, but he doesn't let it sink in for long. ] If the guilty party is still among us, then there's a chance they'll do this again. If not them, then someone else emboldened by the fact they weren't caught, meaning maybe they can get away with it themselves.
I said it went better, not that we did great. [he can at least acknowledge they really and truly messed up.] I've thought about that, too. And I've been trying to think of ways for people to be more careful. I tried the signs on Thursday, but we still had people that ended up alone and in places they shouldn't have been.
And now we have to think about the part where people easily hurt other people if they happen to be in the way. How do we protect people from something like that?
It was progress in the right direction, making those signs. [ Approval - because it was still some kind of attempt at making sure people were safe, and smart. ] We can't do much if someone is given free reign of the Realm while we're unconscious and a locked door won't stop them, but it's easier to account for someone if we're in groups. Especially if we can come to an agreement on places that are off-limits, come Thursday.
There will be people that don't listen - there are always people that don't listen - but if we can get the majority to, then there's hope for something. Get some people to stay out of that damned train station come curfew, maybe.
And I would say that we could teach people how to better defend themselves, if they don't know how to already, but that comes with the counterpoint that we could very easily be teaching someone how to better kill another.
Edited (breaks those paragraphs up jfc that was Bad) 2020-10-12 02:25 (UTC)
That's a good idea. [establishing safe zones seems like something that would work really well.] One of the things I want to ask the leaders, too, is if our rooms really do stay locked on Thursdays. They normally can't be opened without our PHSes, but do we know about Thursday nights?
We could always try to lock the station from the inside, but after today maybe people will reconsider. [...] Even if there's a risk of teaching someone to kill better, wouldn't that almost be worth it if we can teach them to defend themselves better, too? I don't know. What's the right answer here?
I'm interested to know that, as well. If our rooms unlock after we fall asleep, and truly unlock, there's no stopping someone that's awake. But if they stay locked to anyone without a matching PHS - then, damn, that's more incentive to stay inside the rooms.
[ Truth be told, he's skeptical that anyone would stay if that were the case. Too many willful people, him included, for that to work. ]
There's no right answer. [ blunt, but not unkind ] Not when it comes to risks.
[ But, he adds: ] If people want to learn to better defend themselves, we can only hope that it will help them in the event someone comes after them. If their attacker learned the same as them, then at least it's an even playing field, one that they might not have had before they could protect themselves.
The fact that it's incentive means it's likely the Realm can work around it. But I don't want to assume anything either.
It's a risk worth taking then, I think. If we give people an equal chance at least then we can say people tried their best and had a shot. It somehow feels even less fair if they can't fight back.
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Kano was innocent. [ A grim reminder, but he doesn't let it sink in for long. ] If the guilty party is still among us, then there's a chance they'll do this again. If not them, then someone else emboldened by the fact they weren't caught, meaning maybe they can get away with it themselves.
We need to be more careful, and more organized.
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I said it went better, not that we did great. [he can at least acknowledge they really and truly messed up.] I've thought about that, too. And I've been trying to think of ways for people to be more careful. I tried the signs on Thursday, but we still had people that ended up alone and in places they shouldn't have been.
And now we have to think about the part where people easily hurt other people if they happen to be in the way. How do we protect people from something like that?
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It was progress in the right direction, making those signs. [ Approval - because it was still some kind of attempt at making sure people were safe, and smart. ] We can't do much if someone is given free reign of the Realm while we're unconscious and a locked door won't stop them, but it's easier to account for someone if we're in groups. Especially if we can come to an agreement on places that are off-limits, come Thursday.
There will be people that don't listen - there are always people that don't listen - but if we can get the majority to, then there's hope for something. Get some people to stay out of that damned train station come curfew, maybe.
And I would say that we could teach people how to better defend themselves, if they don't know how to already, but that comes with the counterpoint that we could very easily be teaching someone how to better kill another.
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We could always try to lock the station from the inside, but after today maybe people will reconsider. [...] Even if there's a risk of teaching someone to kill better, wouldn't that almost be worth it if we can teach them to defend themselves better, too? I don't know. What's the right answer here?
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[ Truth be told, he's skeptical that anyone would stay if that were the case. Too many willful people, him included, for that to work. ]
There's no right answer. [ blunt, but not unkind ] Not when it comes to risks.
[ But, he adds: ] If people want to learn to better defend themselves, we can only hope that it will help them in the event someone comes after them. If their attacker learned the same as them, then at least it's an even playing field, one that they might not have had before they could protect themselves.
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It's a risk worth taking then, I think. If we give people an equal chance at least then we can say people tried their best and had a shot. It somehow feels even less fair if they can't fight back.