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Dr Sam Wilson ([info]machinesrus) wrote in [info]somerealityweb,
@ 2020-09-10 22:05:00

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Entry tags:active: tony stark, inactive: raven reyes

Some days there's this weird bittersweet feeling, like science is so cool, and I really wish everyone could have stuck with using it to make people's lives better instead of finding new and better ways of killing each other.

Which I recognise is possibly a little ironic from someone who got a damn good reputation for getting things done in the Special Forces, but I guess that's the eternal contradiction of humanity (and also capitalism).


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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 01:01 pm UTC (link)
Science is a double edged sword. It depends on the hands.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 01:14 pm UTC (link)
Some people are pretty damn determined to use the wrong one. And even if you're not it can be easy to get carried away.

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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Preaching to the choir, friend.

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[info]hanabbott
2020-09-10 05:14 pm UTC (link)
I've found myself thinking the same, though not specifically with magic. Then again there are spells that were purposely designed to kill.

I think that's one of the reasons why I enjoy being a Healer so much, and why I garden.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 07:55 pm UTC (link)
People can be both the best and the worst.

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[info]hanabbott
2020-09-11 12:26 am UTC (link)
That's true.

Hard not to dwell on the worst sometimes, isn't it?

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-11 09:47 am UTC (link)
It really is.

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[info]hanabbott
2020-09-11 04:47 pm UTC (link)
Would you like some tea?

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Science can be interesting, in the long run. But Tony's not wrong. It depends on whose hands it's in.

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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 06:45 pm UTC (link)
"Tony's not wrong." I'm framing this.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 06:48 pm UTC (link)
Don't let it get to your head, Tony.

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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 06:50 pm UTC (link)
But it goes with the crown Cap got me.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 07:01 pm UTC (link)
I don't know who that is. Either way, don't let it get to your head. Don't mess with a girl who knows her own science.

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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 07:03 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I will introduce you to my Cap. Mess with you? I know my lane.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I'd like that. And I'd hope so, Tony.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 07:55 pm UTC (link)
Because it happens so rarely?

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[info]notyourplayboy
2020-09-10 07:56 pm UTC (link)
People dislike acknowledging my brilliance.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 07:56 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. And the crappy thing is, dwelling on that too much can lead you down some pretty dark paths itself.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 07:58 pm UTC (link)
It can. Which is why no one is allowed to do it. Much less those I care about.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 09:21 pm UTC (link)
I know, I know. I get that from Steve too.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Between you and Tony talking about people I don't know.

Either way, you and him have become people I care about. So, no going down paths you shouldn't.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Same person, actually.

I'm working on it. It's a process.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-10 09:49 pm UTC (link)
I have a feeling I'm missing something here.

Either way, I'm here. If you ever need to talk.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-11 09:49 am UTC (link)
Steve or the Dark Paths(tm)? There were just a lot of the latter at home. So, you know, they're familiar. I got good night vision.

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[info]hasbattlescars
2020-09-11 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Steve. Or Cap. Or whoever this guy is.

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[info]fourthranked
2020-09-10 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Science in the hands of one person is never a good thing.

They go to far and no one ever checks them.


There are plenty of people I've killed, plenty of people I wish I could save, but that power is too much for any people to have.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 09:24 pm UTC (link)
My timeline was basically a long series of perfect examples. There's a lot of work I deliberately didn't explore or kept to myself because of how it would have been used.

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[info]fourthranked
2020-09-10 09:26 pm UTC (link)
I don't know if 'keeping it to yourself' is a great acomplishment here if you were doing unsavory work.

I grew up with a man who bought children, and used science as a crutch to do what he pleased to them under the guise of experiments.

Mad Scientist types can fuck off.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 09:37 pm UTC (link)
A lot of it was medical. My thesis was on restoring functionality to paralysed limbs. Problem is the government was sort of obsessed with creating human weapons so there was a whole balancing act between finding ways to fix people and finding ways to enhance them. I had family members in living memory who were sacrificed for the latter.

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[info]fourthranked
2020-09-10 09:38 pm UTC (link)
Reginald Hargreeves would have fit in with your government very well.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 10:00 pm UTC (link)
More people did than didn't. A lot of them assumed I was just a theoreticist. A good one, just not necessarily capable of turning theory into practice.

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[info]fourthranked
2020-09-10 10:14 pm UTC (link)
some things are better off in theory.

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[info]machinesrus
2020-09-10 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Definitely.

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