I think we could do it, but accomplishing that would require, one, that we prioritize solving the issue without bloody coup or public executions, and everyone has to be on the same page with that; and two, everyone actually plans and coordinates with each other on a team-wide scale instead of just throwing out ideas and then chasing them willy-nilly. Right now we're still gathering information, and so I have been less worried about coordination while we poke about. That might come back to bite us already. But pretty soon we'll have to start making moves with Rost. They need to be smart, maximally effective moves.
We should be thinking about what we'll do if we have to wage a hearts-and-minds campaign within the team as well as among the citizens.
And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
We don't have the right to tell them how to do anything.
But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
I think if they do we'll just feel responsible for failing to stop them. They're our team. We're not leaders here, but we're still a part of what happens. We'll be complicit in some way.
We're a team. What happens to the team reflects on the people within the team. Even if no one's fully responsible for the ultimate actions of the team while in the field.
Champions is six, including me. The team of X-Men I'm working with is 7 people plus two people keeping it running/funded and two people serving as teachers/back-up. But there are dozens of X-Men total, we just don't all work all together all the time.
You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
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Do you think we'll get through this mission without necessary casualties?
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I think we could do it, but accomplishing that would require, one, that we prioritize solving the issue without bloody coup or public executions, and everyone has to be on the same page with that; and two, everyone actually plans and coordinates with each other on a team-wide scale instead of just throwing out ideas and then chasing them willy-nilly. Right now we're still gathering information, and so I have been less worried about coordination while we poke about. That might come back to bite us already. But pretty soon we'll have to start making moves with Rost. They need to be smart, maximally effective moves.
We should be thinking about what we'll do if we have to wage a hearts-and-minds campaign within the team as well as among the citizens.
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And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
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But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
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I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
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Don't give people the satisfaction of seeing anyone murdered.
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[ Even if Scott isn't so certain it can be done. ]
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I may be here to stop my father. I am here to stop my father. But my father's actions aren't mine.
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How many people?
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That's my point, and you knew it was my point all along.
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You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
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I didn't say I wanted control. And it's not about reflecting on me. It's about wanting people to not do something stupid.
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I just also like having realistic expectations of what it is that I can accomplish.
You don't.
[Calling him out is like, her full-time job at the moment.]
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Okay, no. That's completely unfair. This is the exact thing I am supposed to be capable of accomplishing. It's the thing I was supposed to be doing.
Eventually.
Before I got stuck in the future.
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