No. Whether you endured or not, Tobias, whether you functioned in the capacity assigned to you by fate or whatever you might believe in, those eight years definitely matter.
The most important facet of being human - the only facet that matters, to my mind - is how we treat each other. Not the results of said treatment, not whether or not they earned it, but just plain old how we act towards one another. Animals have their protective instincts, sure, and other intelligent beings in the galaxy do things their way, but what humans have and have always had is the rational capacity to choose to be good to one another. That's how we survive. That's what makes us who and what we are.
And since the people taking care of you failed to comprehend what even a fragment of a computer program understood - that basic human duty to give a damn fuck - then I'm not inclined to listen to you try to justify what they did to you.
I'm not blaming you for not getting out of there. I'm not telling you that you should have done anything differently, because I understand that you did what you could to survive, and I'm proud of you for that. For who you've turned out to be.
But I'm not going to go along and say that it's okay, nor will I turn a blind eye to those eight years just because they toughened you up for a war you never asked for. Do you understand that when you say things like that, that you did your duty and got through it, and does it matter...what really comes across is how heart-breakingly unhappy you've been, man?
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Date: 2016-06-10 09:15 pm (UTC)The most important facet of being human - the only facet that matters, to my mind - is how we treat each other. Not the results of said treatment, not whether or not they earned it, but just plain old how we act towards one another. Animals have their protective instincts, sure, and other intelligent beings in the galaxy do things their way, but what humans have and have always had is the rational capacity to choose to be good to one another. That's how we survive. That's what makes us who and what we are.
And since the people taking care of you failed to comprehend what even a fragment of a computer program understood - that basic human duty to give a damn fuck - then I'm not inclined to listen to you try to justify what they did to you.
I'm not blaming you for not getting out of there. I'm not telling you that you should have done anything differently, because I understand that you did what you could to survive, and I'm proud of you for that. For who you've turned out to be.
But I'm not going to go along and say that it's okay, nor will I turn a blind eye to those eight years just because they toughened you up for a war you never asked for. Do you understand that when you say things like that, that you did your duty and got through it, and does it matter...what really comes across is how heart-breakingly unhappy you've been, man?