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[accidentaltruth]

[He still doesn't like putting his face out there, not when it's identical to Miles. So the voice that comes over the comm is grouchy, and entirely unaccompanied by video; the only name attached is "Mark".]

There's a lot of talk about being dangerous at the moment, but... what makes someone dangerous?

[Because honestly, as little as he likes actually doing it- he knows exactly how to kill people. How to fight, how to assassinate, how to leave as few traces as he can. And it's not like he couldn't, in the right circumstances, or like he hasn't, even if it was only once.

But it's kind of alarming, all the talk about justice and not fighting, and he just wants some idea what to expect.]

And what kind of laws are we talking about? Where I come from- there aren't really laws, just Deals. [Capital letter entirely intended.] I mean, I've studied some other laws before, but it might be kind of useful to know what kind of other systems are out there.

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[bloodbinds]

People are dangerous when others feel threatened by them. Someone can have the propensity to be dangerous - aggression, malevolence, power that's uncontrolled - but it's really about how others perceive their actions. Not to say it isn't the individual's responsibility to keep themselves in check...just that I imagine every world's culture and view of these things is different.

[ That's a bit of a mouthful. She doesn't usually talk about things like this anywhere, especially not on the network, but-- ]

We're all scared of each other here. We have no reason to trust each other.

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[devilofohara]

It isn't how people perceive their actions. It's fear of what the next thing they do will be.

[She's speaking from experience here. Her entire island was wipe out purely because the scholars there knew too much.]

Just because someone hasn't done anything scary doesn't mean people won't be afraid about what they can do.

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[bloodbinds]

That too. Just knowing what someone's capable of doing is plenty enough to make people afraid. They make assumptions and start accusations.

[accidentaltruth]

But that just means almost everyone is dangerous to someone. So when people are talking about stopping dangerous people, do they mean to stop everyone on board?

[He genuinely doesn't know. His education was... pretty narrow in scope, really, and very influenced by the terrorists who commissioned him.]

So there's no reason to try?

[bloodbinds]

I think there's every reason to try. But we also need to build trust in one another. You need a solid foundation of something before you can build something sturdy.

[ And hopefully that 'something' won't be animosity. ]

[accidentaltruth]

But none of us really know each other, and you have to know people to trust them. And even then, maybe some of them aren't worth trusting anyway.

[He has a hard time trusting that when the crew includes him, it doesn't include anyone else like him, or worse. And Mark finds it pretty hard to trust anyone at all.]

[bloodbinds]

I agree. And that's what needs to happen. The problem, though, is that a lot of people don't want to tell others about themselves...very specifically because of what's recently been happening. If someone's different, they're just as likely to be labeled dangerous because people aren't getting to know them before assumptions are made.

In the end, it's a double-edged sword.

[accidentaltruth]

And if they aren't talking because they are dangerous? It isn't sounding like there's a solution.

[bloodbinds]

They aren't talking in part because they might be dangerous, or have been considered to be before, but they're also afraid to talk. We can change how hostile this environment is, too.