"Some other terrible situation doesn't change this one at all," is the muttered response. "That's a bad argument, and all it does is try to divert the topic to something else. Master Ansem would have such a disapproving frown. I might as well say it's better than being run over by a herd of buffalo; it may be true, but it's pretty much irrelevant to the immediate situation at hand."
Train: good or bad, it's not part of the discussion as far as he's concerned, apparently. "People don't need to die for something to be awful to the point where it should be immediately stopped, no matter what might potentially be gained from it later. Diagad didn't kill us either. Nor did the encounter just before that which forced all of you to suffer your worst terrors, but oh, was anyone suggesting we cooperate and see what we learn when that thing was torturing us? After all we didn't die." His scowl deepens suddenly, fairly bristling with indignation. "And now I'm employing your fallacy, I would be laughed out of the debate hall and rightly so." It's shameful, SHAMEFUL. He deserves to be laughed out of a debate hall.
He was going to have to moderate his own responses better, the situation was bad enough without inviting Even to appear out of nowhere and mock him for resorting to logical fallacies to try to make a point.
"I have been taught that the ends do not justify the means. And just hoping they throw us a tidbit that they haven't yet bothered to do in favor of what they HAVE DONE and are continuing to do right now, doesn't make any of this acceptable to me. The price is too high." Would it have been, had the situation been a little different? "On the questionably bright side, it's heartening to know my morality is apparently still intact. As we are likely being monitored, I will leave it at that." He has plans, terrible plans if he gets the opportunity to put them to use.. but discussing them wasn't going to happen. Not when it's so likely their captors are listening to every word they speak.
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Train: good or bad, it's not part of the discussion as far as he's concerned, apparently. "People don't need to die for something to be awful to the point where it should be immediately stopped, no matter what might potentially be gained from it later. Diagad didn't kill us either. Nor did the encounter just before that which forced all of you to suffer your worst terrors, but oh, was anyone suggesting we cooperate and see what we learn when that thing was torturing us? After all we didn't die." His scowl deepens suddenly, fairly bristling with indignation. "And now I'm employing your fallacy, I would be laughed out of the debate hall and rightly so." It's shameful, SHAMEFUL. He deserves to be laughed out of a debate hall.
He was going to have to moderate his own responses better, the situation was bad enough without inviting Even to appear out of nowhere and mock him for resorting to logical fallacies to try to make a point.
"I have been taught that the ends do not justify the means. And just hoping they throw us a tidbit that they haven't yet bothered to do in favor of what they HAVE DONE and are continuing to do right now, doesn't make any of this acceptable to me. The price is too high." Would it have been, had the situation been a little different? "On the questionably bright side, it's heartening to know my morality is apparently still intact. As we are likely being monitored, I will leave it at that." He has plans, terrible plans if he gets the opportunity to put them to use.. but discussing them wasn't going to happen. Not when it's so likely their captors are listening to every word they speak.