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This is exactly why you don't trust scientists.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as fond of education and exploration as anyone else, but really this problem would have been solved before it even started if we just burned all of the offenders notes and maybe buried his research under a few tons of cement.

Drastic, maybe, but I find it'd probably be a great deal less damaging to the population at large that way.

It'd be just awful if there were to be a Guardian compromised by this.

Can you even imagine.

I hope we've all taken something very important from this, when someone suggests testing a hitherto unknown and possibly dangerous chemical substance on an unknowing populace, we don't just stop at firing them.

If they don't have the moral compass to not suggest using an entire city as a pack of guinea pigs, they probably don't have the moral compass to not do it anyway when you tell them no.

Have we learned nothing from fifties sci fi movies?

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[ She'd reply openly but she doesn't want to leave anyone clues as to where the hell she is. See, when people put a bounty on your head because they think you're dangerous even if you haven't done anything here it tends to be disconcerting when the next thing you see is something like this. ]

So your solution is to arrest people before they've done anything wrong just because you think they're a bad person?

I'm sorry you're deaf.

That's actually not what I said at all.

Sorry, that was the optimistic version of what you implied with "don't just stop at firing them." Hard to be deaf or understanding about a cryptic statement like that.

Okay.

We're going to have a short lesson on listening comprehension.

Rewind to about the second sentence.

Listen closely.

... Did you listen?

I hope you did.

Because I just took all the mystery out of my grand, evil plan.

OK but if they already know how to do it then that's just kind of you being a dumbass and getting rid of the evidence for how to fix it.

I must really be off my game if I'm assuming you had half a brain that I wrote that off as what you meant.

Please stop.

Listen again.

Fast forward to the end and listen.

Here, I'll find it for you, let me just pull this up-

"I hope we've all taken something very important from this, when someone suggests testing a hitherto unknown and possibly dangerous chemical substance on an unknowing populace, we don't just stop at firing them."

My goodness, it's almost as if I suggested we act on that before they do something stupid with their new dangerous chemical.

But that's impossible.

You know, I'm interested now.

What would you have done to prevent this? You're overwhelming me with your intelligence, I could really use a few pointers.

I think some fundamental part of you is just not comprehending what I'm saying since that's literally the first part that I pointed out, though I guessed you had some kind of plan to do something besides whine (my bad) and then you claimed it was just about getting rid of the evidence (which doesn't prevent him from doing it anyway if he has a memory longer than a goldfish).

IDK Maybe you should just accept that sometimes bad crap happens and "prevention" isn't always the solution. Or they could've got the guy help and reported the incident to get him on a terrorist watch list. Personally, I have to wonder why the water source is wide open for anyone to dump whatever they want in it anyway.

But really, any guy who feels the need to pull something like this clearly has more issues than just wanting to do science. I doubt his motivation was just 'it'd be cool,' so find out what the actual problem is. Or just kill him if you thought he wasn't going to stop no matter what you do, but that'd be on a more "caught him trying to dump" level.

And now we're back on square one. Maybe I am missing something. Tell me in your own words what you think I'm saying. I need to hear what is going on between your ears, because clearly, I have made a mistake.

But it could have been prevented, and it should have been prevented, and now people are getting hurt. Your solution appears to be either... what was that, the reader just said some strange noise, if that's an acronym you need to put periods in it or I won't know what you're saying...

"Idk, people die whatever"

Stellar.

So while you seem to have assumed, and still assume, that I want this person jailed with no trail or jury before any wrongdoing has been committed, your solution is to just murder them.

I like that one.

I'm going with that one now.

OK. let me break this down for you (please read this as if I'm speaking really slowly so you can keep up because just because you didn't mean something doesn't mean you didn't say it):

"...when someone suggests testing a hitherto unknown and possibly dangerous chemical substance on an unknowing populace" = didn't actually suggest that if you listen to the news report, that's just what he did after being denied a safe testing area because the co. didn't want to. Still not great but LOL come on man get your facts straight

"we don't just stop at firing them." = we need to do something after we fire them. Normal people would assume that this means actually doing something that would prevent them from taking action anyway. If this has been anyone other than some guy who is nuts enough to dump it into the water supply, you're basically assuming that anyone who believes something other than what you believe to be correct deserves a consequence for believing otherwise. Again, I assumed arrest because that tends to be what happens around here with the bounty-crazy population.

(It is a fact here, by the way, that no one actually cares if you're guilty of crimes, they set bounties for arrests anyway. How many times have people done bounties without even bother to check if the person was guilty? All you have to do is send one into the paper and put up the money. Aside the point, but gives context to the arrest assumption since that's how everyone around here seems to think. :) )

Now here's what I said:
"Or just kill him if you thought he wasn't going to stop no matter what you do, but that'd be on a more "caught him trying to dump" level."
If you caught a guy in the middle of dumping something into the water supply and you didn't know what it was or who he was but he clearly didn't belong there, would your solution be say "hey stop" and watch him do it anyway or to stop him? I didn't say hunt him down, I said that's only if you're right there and witnessing it happen and you can stop it.

Madam.

I'm blind.

Anyway. I told you before. Let me break this down as nicely as I can.

When someone approaches you with an idea to poison the water, my suggestion was, in as few words as possible: Remove the poison and the recipe for the poison. Remove them from their position of power.

Then if they somehow recall the exact specifics of a long and complicated chemical sequence and string it all back together and poison the water anyway, well at least there was a sincere and valiant attempt at stopping them first, instead of just saying 'sometimes bad things happen'. Sadly, while true, telling a population of angry and poisoned city goers that 'sometimes bad things happen' isn't considered a politically or ethically healthy move. People don't like the truth.

But with all this mention of bounties, and how upset you are at how they are set, I'm going to assume that perhaps you've been on the unlucky receiving end of a bounty set on you.

With that in mind, I'm just going to peruse the local bounty section and start guessing which one you might be.

Stop me if I'm wrong.

Congrats on being blind! Tell your device to read it slower. I believe in you.

I think I'm getting where this whole argument has you stupid if you thought any being with a brain would be dumb enough to ask to poison the water supply. If you're going to poison the water supply, you don't ask. My understanding is he probably asked Aster Tech- now stay with me here because common sense is complicated- to do a trial run on test subjects. When he got turned down, that's when he got angry and went to town with it.

I gave like a handful of solutions that would actually help and the only one you're focusing on is me saying that you can't stop crimes you had no way of knowing where going to happen. Especially if the ones planning them are smarter than you are. Captain Hindsight doesn't seem to be serving anyone at all either, but hey, you keep at it.

I've put bounties in for giggles before, but you're welcome to come try to find me. Hey, what's your name?

[ She loves how so many people can't figure out she's trolling. This is not the first time she's done this, anon or with her name, but lord she can't get enough of it. But at least it's keeping her out of trouble. Pretty much everything past the first question she's just been trying to harass him about. Though he's on it about the bounty, even if it's not in the paper. Just one of the affected deputies disliking her on a personal level. ]

Hold on.

"Device, please read these mountains of paragraphs slower, there's nothing I enjoy more than listening to someone intentionally try to upset me in slow motion."

There we go.

Now.

I've been listening to this for a long, long time. I'm going to consider ten minutes with you a long time, because it's very tiresome, running in circles.

Either you're stupid, or you're lying about being stupid. I don't have much faith in people as a whole, but I'm not convinced someone could constantly miss the point this many times on accident.

Which one is it?

IDK you're the one who's been sticking with this for so long.

You either really like to argue or I'm not the stupid one.

There's that sound again. I don't know what that sound is. Stop it.

Well of course I'd stick with it that long, I'm not exactly brimming with other people to talk to. A starving man will eat anything, even what he finds at the bottom of the crisper drawer.

So the answer is you're stupid.

Good to know.

Do you have fun looking like you're stupid?

Oh no!!! I've just learned that I'm stupid, whatever will I do...

This is it. It's over. I'm never commented on the internet again. You've cured me.

IDK IDK IDK IDK

So now we've sussed out that you're bored, have no imagination, and are in dire need of a hobby.

Might I suggest a good book?

Education can be magic!

Believe me, the guy who owns the local bookstore will never forget my face.

[ RIP Tukson, you traitorous puma. ]

Edited 2017-01-20 06:47 (UTC)

Book stores are not for causing shenanigans in. You know that right?

[There's a knock at Szel's bedroom.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Sebastian.

Sebastian who?

It's Sebastian checking on his housemate.

Yeah, let's come on in. The door open and Sebastian peeks in.]

You know, Mr. Szel. I do have a bottle of water straight from Nova City, containing the very same poison that affected the citizens there.

Do you care to try a sample to test your theory? After all, your post to the network that you posted last night is quite...scintillating, that I picked this up after work for you.

Or do you prefer the usual cup of tea for the afternoon?

[You see, Sebastian is being so...thoughtful and polite, he isn't really teasing him with the irony.]

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Which theory was that, the one that someone in power shouldn't have it or the one where we'd be better off if we'd nuked his research from day one, because if it's the second one, I don't think I'll need a personal sample of it.

[As usual the room he's in has gone... well right to hell, filled with a distinct eerie sensation, reality curling in at the edges as those invisible tendrils stuffed the room to it's gills.]

Not to mention at this point in my life if I did have a moral side to me, there's a good chance it could fit into the vents and it'd probably die in there too.

It's a complication I'd rather not deal with.

Both. Ah well, I'm only joking. I don't want to see you split into two half halves of your worse selves.

[The interior decoration is quite an improvement really. It feels cozy and comfortable like home.]

Optimistic are we? It would be more hard work for me to do, just to clean out the mess that is your rotten decayed purity. The vents needs to be in proper order to filter the clean air throughout the mansion, you know.

[With a bit of a hum, Sebastian presents afternoon tea, served on a china cup on a china saucer.]

Your afternoon tea, Mr. Szel. And don't make it more complicated by arguing with teenage deadbeats online. That will make your mind rot as well. Don't make it a poor habit. That can get addicting.

[But then again, isn't everyone bored?]

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If I didn't immediately murder myself of course. I'm fairly certain my purity is already rotten and decayed, but I'd hate to be wrong.

[The tea was taken with a nod and even a respectful 'thank you']

Sebastian, I'm not a terribly social person but I do require occasional interaction with others, and if that means making some idiot monkey on the local frequency scream in text like a ten year old for a few minutes, I'll take it.

I need to get to work opening my own subgate. You are wonderful company, don't get me wrong, but I was used to having at least one constant companion at home.

It's not quite as fun having conversations with yourself, and I hardly expect you to follow on my heels all day.

S-Someone is... is poisoning people?

[A little slow on the uptake here. So asks the man living in the middle of the woods with his own personal water supply. Didn't help that the news tended to be something that he would 'get around' to reading and trying to figure out what was happening on the network would just confuse him. Somehow, this hadn't reached him...]

While I'm sure they would hesitate to call it poison themselves, there's no denying it has some terrible effects on your average flesh and bone body.

It is, technically therefore, a poison.

There was an incident in Nova City. You haven't heard it yet? I can pull the information up for you.

Oooh...

[He was going to end up notorious for not checking things at this rate.

He shook his head. Which probably didn't really help Szel.]

N-No. I've just been in the f-forest. Is everyone... are they better now?

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