It's been a long couple of days so I'll try to make this short.
Avante's 'oath' Live hasn't been put to much use yet, but I want to make one now.
I swear to every unit that I will always work to minimize harm, and to do my utmost to prevent death and profound suffering among all units, as much as the protection of my own unit allows.
I know that sounds pretty watered-down, but I think we're better of acknowledging that when it comes down to it, we all want to protect our own units and those we care about above anything else.
I do truly believe the best thing we can do to protect our own units is to protect each other. For that we need to be able to trust each other. Despite some of the outcomes of the last game, I think it was pretty good proof that we can trust each other to do what's right, for the most part.
But a big part of trust is accountability. I've already made this clear to Taisho, but I don't intend to keep it a secret. The next time Yasuragi willfully acts to cause death or intolerable suffering to anyone here, I will kill him, outside of the games. If, before that time, we as a community establish guidelines on how to deal with what violence that we can control, or if Taisho presents a reasonable plan of action, I'll submit to that instead.
Thanks for listening. I have two things left I want to mention.
First of all, anyone who thinks this oath is common sense is free to join me in it.
Second, anyone who prefers to think there's no point in trying because we're helpless victims of the games should remember that it's the same Hosts running the games that make us all better afterward, and the same Hosts that give us our abilities. Consider carefully how much you want to continue to depend on that 'goodwill'.
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It's been a long couple of days so I'll try to make this short.
Avante's 'oath' Live hasn't been put to much use yet, but I want to make one now.
I swear to every unit that I will always work to minimize harm, and to do my utmost to prevent death and profound suffering among all units, as much as the protection of my own unit allows.
I know that sounds pretty watered-down, but I think we're better of acknowledging that when it comes down to it, we all want to protect our own units and those we care about above anything else.
I do truly believe the best thing we can do to protect our own units is to protect each other. For that we need to be able to trust each other. Despite some of the outcomes of the last game, I think it was pretty good proof that we can trust each other to do what's right, for the most part.
But a big part of trust is accountability. I've already made this clear to Taisho, but I don't intend to keep it a secret. The next time Yasuragi willfully acts to cause death or intolerable suffering to anyone here, I will kill him, outside of the games. If, before that time, we as a community establish guidelines on how to deal with what violence that we can control, or if Taisho presents a reasonable plan of action, I'll submit to that instead.
Thanks for listening. I have two things left I want to mention.
First of all, anyone who thinks this oath is common sense is free to join me in it.
Second, anyone who prefers to think there's no point in trying because we're helpless victims of the games should remember that it's the same Hosts running the games that make us all better afterward, and the same Hosts that give us our abilities. Consider carefully how much you want to continue to depend on that 'goodwill'.