Intergalactic Summit

Good and bad are one of the most commonly accepted false dichotomies. The concept of absolute right and wrong is in itself a classic example of a mind projection fallacy. In this case, that of a large portion of the world believing in moral absolutes, the false belief is not itself an image, but rather an illusory concept. For such a concept as absolute morals to exist the existence of circumstantial choice must be disproved or, as is commonly the case, ignored entirely. An individual choosing to ignore circumstantial variables can quite easily label something or some action as either black or white; with little room left to see any grey area.

However, it is indisputable that, depending on the situation at hand during any given scenario, people will and do react differently to outside stimuli. What do we really know of ourselves? If I ask who you really are; will you have an answer?

The question I pose to you all today is this. Why is it that we continue to paint the universe in blacks and whites? As capsuleers we have all killed thousands of people over our lifetimes. Be that for a great cause, or just to gain a marginal advantage in our lives, or to gain a little ISK. Are we truly capable of judging others, even other capsuleers, in the same light as ourselves. In any government or planetary settlement the actions most Capsuleers have taken, even in the name of things like honor, duty, freedom, country, or benevolence, would be seen as atrocities by anyone not guaranteed to reappear in a clone vat.

Governments can't control us. CONCORD can only hope to keep us in check. We run rampant over the explored galaxy. So much so that entire star nations use us a proxies for their wars. We are tools used by weak masters. And they realize this. But what choice do they have? What choice do we have?

We are the monsters that mothers warn their children about at night. We are the benevolent force of the galaxy. And most of us don't even care that every time we destroy a ship thousands of normals die. Every citadel that is lost means hundreds of thousands of civilian or non-capsuleer lives lost. We are a cancer, and there is no cure.

You seem to have this odd obsession with being a monster. You're far too presumptuous.

The monsters mothers warn their children about are typically men and women who have lost touch with their humanity and view themselves as something different. The irony in your waxing poetic here is that you're reinforcing the very separation between "capsuleer" and "baseliner" that creates those sociopathic behavioral trends.

The question shouldn't be "Can we judge?" The question should be "Can we look at ourselves in the mirror after judging ourselves?"

If we concede the ability to judge, that also means we concede the ability to judge our past actions and improve if we don't like what we see.

Having had a military background, I got past this point a long time ago.

In the back of your head, you count the cost of the lives taken. But at the end of the day, if you make it home alive, if your crew makes it back and you're lucky enough to have completed your mission, it's enough.

When people stop holding the thought of lives taken in their subconscious is when they lose their humanity.

Only if your wrong.

Innocence lies not in ignorance of our purpose, but in its boundless celebration.
...No matter how dark its nature or vast the ocean of our disquiet.

If you are a puppet then who holds the strings?

And there is no rule against a module suddenly deciding that it wants to go take a break and detaches itself from the ship to grow some...Dominixes*. The moment said module develops self-awareness, the very moment it starts asking existential questions and ponders about whether Dominixes* are best baked or boiled, it has become a sentient entity and should be treated as such.

And if you have an answer to what we are, stop being an edgy trenchcoated Gallentean teenager with terrible hairstyle and too much eyeliner and just spit it out.

This is still very melodramatic.

You're all very melodramatic.

Yes I have killed many in my lifetime... But I can sleep at night knowing that those that I killed were enemies and wanted to hurt me or my friends. This lets me sleep at night.

Now I only kill sworn enemies of the Providence region, and only those that have been marked Kill on sight for crimes against us.

I HATE YOU!