Ain't nothing real about it. Ain't nothing real about a place where nothing can actually kill you, nothing can actually harm you. Ain't nothing real about the Enclosure because the folks in there don't have the ability to make choices. They can't kill anyone back.
All you made is a place where folks can kill without any consequences.
There's folks here who want to kill others. But if they do, a warden's gonna do something about it, or another inmate. Or folks won't like them for doing it. They might not feel anything over killing someone, but they'll feel the hurt somehow or other.
Instead, you give 'em a place where they can do it and no one cares. I'm not saying folks won't be directly effected. But they're being directly affected now. And you've got no way of knowing if that place helped or hurt them in the long run cause it ain't like there ain't a whole rest of this ship and all these people who coulda done it too.
[ His teeth grit a little. ]
Just maybe they're a little quieter, a little easier to manage, I suppose. All the changes around here, but of course we've still got an Enclosure. Gotta give them that taste of freedom so they don't get too ornery. That's a lot of what it sounds like, sir. I won't lie to you. It sounds like 'this is easier'. But nothing you've said makes it sound right.
I got told once, back home, that the reason I exist, 'everything good thing that's ever happened in my life, and everything rotten', it all happened so that someone else could get something they needed out of it. 'Purpose', 'meaning', he said.
I'm not trying to fuss... but it sure sounds like nothing much's changed.
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That's the thing though, sir.
Ain't nothing real about it. Ain't nothing real about a place where nothing can actually kill you, nothing can actually harm you. Ain't nothing real about the Enclosure because the folks in there don't have the ability to make choices. They can't kill anyone back.
All you made is a place where folks can kill without any consequences.
There's folks here who want to kill others. But if they do, a warden's gonna do something about it, or another inmate. Or folks won't like them for doing it. They might not feel anything over killing someone, but they'll feel the hurt somehow or other.
Instead, you give 'em a place where they can do it and no one cares. I'm not saying folks won't be directly effected. But they're being directly affected now. And you've got no way of knowing if that place helped or hurt them in the long run cause it ain't like there ain't a whole rest of this ship and all these people who coulda done it too.
[ His teeth grit a little. ]
Just maybe they're a little quieter, a little easier to manage, I suppose. All the changes around here, but of course we've still got an Enclosure. Gotta give them that taste of freedom so they don't get too ornery. That's a lot of what it sounds like, sir. I won't lie to you. It sounds like 'this is easier'. But nothing you've said makes it sound right.
I got told once, back home, that the reason I exist, 'everything good thing that's ever happened in my life, and everything rotten', it all happened so that someone else could get something they needed out of it. 'Purpose', 'meaning', he said.
I'm not trying to fuss... but it sure sounds like nothing much's changed.