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:3. Now you asked me to keep an eye out for signs of cruelty<br> | |||
:: among the Stasis users. But it strikes me there's a<br> | |||
:: problem here. In the old days we would call it "statistical<br> | |||
:: comorbidity" but maybe you fancy Warlocks have<br> | |||
:: some deeper understanding of synchronicity or hidden<br> | |||
:: concordance or whatnot. What I mean is can we tell if<br> | |||
:: Stasis makes people cruel or reckless or in the best cases<br> | |||
:: very bold? I see Stasis users who shouldn't have any kind<br> | |||
:: of power, never mind Stasis. And I see decent Guardians<br> | |||
:: who took to Stasis as an urgent necessity. It's the old<br> | |||
:: question about [[Thorn]]. Was [[Dredgen Yor]] corrupted by his<br> | |||
:: weapon? Or did he just need an excuse? | |||
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::Maybe Stasis really is just a tool. Maybe the only moral valence it has is what we bring to it. | |||
::Maybe Stasis really is just a tool. Maybe the only moral<br> | |||
:: valence it has is what we bring to it. | |||
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:4. [[Cowlick]] still refuses to examine the Stasis crystals with<br> | |||
:: her own unique senses and I'm not gonna make her. Poor<br> | |||
:: Ghost shouldn't have to stare into what hurts her. Best<br> | |||
:: details she could get with secular instruments attached.<br> | |||
:: However Cowlick is pleased as pinch to go over the results<br> | |||
:: and come up with theories. I'll leave the "Flack parametric<br> | |||
:: analysis" and all the other numbers to her… | |||
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:5. Now I do know something about viruses from my frontier<br> | |||
:: medicine days. I know that gentler strains of a virus have<br> | |||
:: a competitive advantage if they keep their host alive long<br> | |||
:: enough to jump to a new one. So we can imagine Stasis<br> | |||
:: as a virus, maybe even a virus with purpose—limiting its<br> | |||
:: virulence so as to get at the rest of us. | |||
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::But we've got to remember that a virus only evolves to go easy on its host when that makes it more successful. It's a myth that all diseases evolve to coexist peacefully with us. A virus will crank up its lethality to 99% so long as that viciousness also lets it reach a new host. If a virus could make people explode like rotten balloons and infect everyone nearby, a virus would do it. Viruses don't give a damn for anything except making more of themselves. | |||
::But we've got to remember that a virus only evolves to<br> | |||
:: go easy on its host when that makes it more successful.<br> | |||
:: It's a myth that all diseases evolve to coexist peacefully<br> | |||
:: with us. A virus will crank up its lethality to 99% so long<br> | |||
:: as that viciousness also lets it reach a new host. If a virus<br> | |||
:: could make people explode like rotten balloons and infect<br> | |||
:: everyone nearby, a virus would do it. Viruses don't give<br> | |||
:: a damn for anything except making more of themselves. | |||
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