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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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I agree with what you said about sacrifice. Sometimes it's inevitable. There's no perfect solution, you just have to do the best you can with the information you have and hope that you've got it right. And then live with the consequences.

I wouldn't compromise my principles, though. Break rules if I had to, sure. But I wouldn't do something I knew to be bad - truly morally wrong.

There are some -- very rare -- situations where some perfect solution might swoop on in at the last minute, but I think not preparing for the worst is foolish. It's not likely to happen, even though I'm not blind to the fact that it can. I'm just glad others see it that way and don't automatically refer to it as "pessimism".

I don't know. Depending on the opposing outcome, I think I'm willing to break the rules. I guess it would depend on the level the situation is at, how dire it is, how many it might affect... it's hard to say without knowing the exact scenario.

I think it's realism. If you wait around for the perfect solution and there isn't one, you've got no solution at all. If it's just about you, then maybe it doesn't matter, but if there are people relying on you? You owe it to them to have prepared. Even if you don't like what you come up with.

Oh, sure, I wouldn't break the rules if I didn't absolutely have to, either. I only meant that something being against protocol isn't the same as it being against your core values. The first you can live with if you have to. The second maybe not. That's just how I see it.

I definitely agree with that notion. If it's about yourself maybe, sure, but in the end what happens to yourself tends to affect other people so you have to consider it just as well as you might anything else. If it's other people -- and especially if it's your job -- you should do your best to be prepared, sometimes for the worst, for their sake.

[ Jill makes a small sound, not quite amused but not disagreeing with any of this, either. ]

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm also willing to live with the worst consequences if it means meeting a goal. Then again, I'm also selective in what specific kind of goal I'd be willing to do that for. [ Generally it has to involve a specific person, she's not going to admit to it but she wouldn't lie about it, either. ] Some things end up mattering more than you might realize when they're put on the line and you have to come up with an answer fast, I think.

That's it. If it's your job, it's part of what you agreed to when you took it on, and you can't just shrink away from it. You can't put it on someone else.

[ She speaks with all the certainty of a spacer who has been given that message in a dozen different ways. Again and again in training - if you want your own command someday, Tayrey, this is what you have to know about it. It's genuine, on her part. She takes her responsibilities seriously.

But the flipside of that is that while Ari might be qualified now, and very proud of it she is, her responsibilities at present amount to managing a little astrogation department through second-shift while all the careerists with actual seniority are asleep. She hasn't got an inflated sense of her own importance, and that's what stops her from insisting that she'd never, ever compromise a core value, no matter what. Even if she's thinking it. ]

In a real emergency, sometimes doing anything at all is better than spending too long deliberating and doing nothing. But what kind of goals do you think are worth as much as you're saying?

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