[ she grits her teeth, long and silent, down on all her own past mistakes. life-losing, nearly world-ending mistakes. ]
do you think it helps us do better as a group — for those in power to withhold so much information from us at the start? how does a group not devolve into distrust after that...
[ is the first message he sends and he almost doesn’t follow it up — at first, he thinks wanda has a point, but then there’s a second thought, a little more nagging. isn’t it kind of hypocritical of him? would he be able to say he wouldn’t do the same thing, in their position? doesn’t he make those kind of decisions every day for other people? he hides things about who he is, what he does and what he can do because he’s ‘protecting’ people.
oy, thanks for the existential crisis, wanda.
eventually, then: ]
I kind of get it though. All that power, that feeling of responsibility. They probably didn’t even think about how we’d feel about it. Probably didn’t even think that trust entered the equation. If I had to guess, it was about the
(okay, I kind of hate saying these next words?)
The greater good. Their perception of it, I mean.
[ there's a lot more he could say to that, about that, but let us just SKIP PAST THE UNCOMFORTABLE TOPICS. ]
And from the sounds of it, it doesn't sound like it really matters if we trust THEM, just that we trust each other, right? Which... isn't on them. It's on us.
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life-losing, nearly world-ending mistakes. ]
do you think it helps us do better as a group — for those in power to withhold so much information from us at the start?
how does a group not devolve into distrust after that...
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[ is the first message he sends and he almost doesn’t follow it up — at first, he thinks wanda has a point, but then there’s a second thought, a little more nagging. isn’t it kind of hypocritical of him? would he be able to say he wouldn’t do the same thing, in their position? doesn’t he make those kind of decisions every day for other people? he hides things about who he is, what he does and what he can do because he’s ‘protecting’ people.
oy, thanks for the existential crisis, wanda.
eventually, then: ]
I kind of get it though. All that power, that feeling of responsibility. They probably didn’t even think about how we’d feel about it. Probably didn’t even think that trust entered the equation. If I had to guess, it was about the
(okay, I kind of hate saying these next words?)
The greater good. Their perception of it, I mean.
[ there's a lot more he could say to that, about that, but let us just SKIP PAST THE UNCOMFORTABLE TOPICS. ]
And from the sounds of it, it doesn't sound like it really matters if we trust THEM, just that we trust each other, right? Which... isn't on them. It's on us.
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