There’s a difference between the danger of a soldier’s life, and this. You know there is, and besides that, half the people here are supposed to be civilians anyway.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
There are people like Hanna, who was never trained to fight before. And like Arya, who’s a child, and now she’s one of the missing. They ought to be far from this. They ought to be safe.
[ And yet neither one of them would have been any safer in their own worlds, anyway. D’Artagnan knows this. He knows both their stories, knows where they come from. His problem is that it seems so wrong to him, worse than dishonourable. Why is it that what’s right or wrong seems so meaningless here? Is it really such a strange thing to want to act on that basis? To want to defend, and protect people, because that’s what ought to be done, and not just because it’s a job? ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Don’t tell me this is just how life is. We owe it to those we’ve lost to be better than that. For their sake, and for everyone we still protect.
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There’s a difference between the danger of a soldier’s life, and this. You know there is, and besides that, half the people here are supposed to be civilians anyway.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
There are people like Hanna, who was never trained to fight before. And like Arya, who’s a child, and now she’s one of the missing. They ought to be far from this. They ought to be safe.
[ And yet neither one of them would have been any safer in their own worlds, anyway. D’Artagnan knows this. He knows both their stories, knows where they come from. His problem is that it seems so wrong to him, worse than dishonourable. Why is it that what’s right or wrong seems so meaningless here? Is it really such a strange thing to want to act on that basis? To want to defend, and protect people, because that’s what ought to be done, and not just because it’s a job? ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Don’t tell me this is just how life is. We owe it to those we’ve lost to be better than that. For their sake, and for everyone we still protect.