Georgia | Leisha
I know! I've done a research project about the way people's timelines have diverged, and most of them I wouldn't want to live in at all.
We're not immortal, no. There are scientists working on it but I don't think they're very close. Yagai - I don't want to think about it, he's such a nice productive joyful man, but you're right, he won't be around forever. People need to understand principles, not just do what he tells them to, that's not how he'd want it to work. I guess what I find tricky is people looking at the same evidence and finding different conclusions, because it'd be much more logical if one of them made a mistake in judgement and was wrong.
Zombie moose sound very scary. But what Yagai would say is that if you bring a zombie moose to town, you're liable. You're responsible if it does damage, that's your fault just the same as if you did it yourself. So even if you're stupid enough to want to do it, knowing that you're legally responsible will stop you. It's because any reasonable person would see the danger. But if you had a rat instead, and the rat - amplified? - and bit someone, that's not your fault, because it doesn't weigh 40lbs so you couldn't be expected to know the risk was there. Does that make sense?
I know, I was just saying. It's funny you call my society libertarian, because we've got libertarians too, they're a political group, but their fringe elements want to do things like privatize the courts and some of them are basically anarchists in that they think they'd be just fine without a government at all, let businesses handle everything. I guess libertarianism is much, much closer to Yagaiism than socialism is, but like I said we don't really have socialists. We've got Keynesians, they want more government involvement in the economy, but they're not nearly so extreme.
I didn't mean you'd write a piece with lies so you could take someone's side. Lots of times the truth isn't in the middle, though, it's on one side or the other, and it'd be irresponsible to pretend to be neutral, especially if you actually know different. You've got to respect the truth. Jake Sully shouldn't be in jail and pretending they've got a point about it isn't right, is it?
Of course people can be silly! There's nothing at all the matter with that, I'd just be...so confused if I was studying on datanet and suddenly found pictures of cats or something. It's a bit like running joke stories in a hardcopy newspaper. Maybe they're funny, but you don't expect it, and if there are more jokes than news, suddenly it's hard to find the information you want. Datanet's like that.