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[analyze_that.insanejournal.com]

Who: ever.
Where: away from the Orpheus common area, the lake, and other common areas.
When: Day 148, morning.
What: releasing tension.

[Someone's snuck out of the dorms vvvery early. And appears to be taking it out on the rocks with his materia.

Watch out for minor earthquakes.]

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[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

*shrugs*

Bad phrasing on my part, but that's not really either of our points.

To answer your question? Because even though we fight each other in the Games at times, most of us think that doesn't have to extend to other things outside them. There's no excusing or extenuating what the Judges force us to do, and we all bear the weight of the choices we make -- or should -- in or out of the games. But we don't choose to live as though we were in the Games all the time; we reach out to others, new or not, within the bounds that are set for us. We share information, we trade, we make friends that aren't on our teams or our partners, and life gets a little better for everyone involved. It's true that there are some people who reject that, but I'd wager that's true of every society. And most of us like to help people when we can, because when we can't always do it freely, passing up an opportunity to do something right is more significant.

If you turn around on the people who've helped you and hit them as hard as you can when you have the chance, it's not going to do you any favors. At some point, your life is going to be in the hands of someone who you've made the same choice for in the past; it's inevitable. Isn't it better for everyone to have a reason not to throws those lives away?

[sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com]

... from what I've heard so far? From what I've seen so far?

Lives are gonna get thrown away. Again. And again. And again. Some willing, some not. I don't know what we'll do in the games--hell, I sure as hell hope we still have a moral standing after a few. But I won't let what happened to Lacerta happen to my team. I can't.

Just so you know. 'Cause, I mean... it's not that I don't appreciate the help...

[blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com]

...but you and yours come first. I can understand that.

It's not that I'd expect you to make that kind of sacrifice for me and mine, or for anyone. That's not what I meant. We don't expect a return on our actions, like some kind of banker, charging interest on generosity. Advice and information are some of the few things we can share freely.

And maybe, in the Games when the only choice we're given is who to save and who to condemn, you'll remember the people that offered you an outstretched hand kindly. And maybe you won't. It's a risk we thinking beings take every time we reach out to something new, that they'll reject us or turn against us. But either way, the people who've helped you will know they tried to do something worthwhile for others, and be able to face themselves that much more easily.

[sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com]

. . . [just nods after a moment of thought]