2 hour morals discussion

??? blueberryBosun [?BB] ??:?? FROM ???? responded to memo.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] is now Benjamin --
CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] oh mai --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] is not Wiv --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] is cooking up eggs and hash in the kitchen --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] is not Wiv at all --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] i know ;) --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] is entering the hive --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] has a pair of headphones on, attached to a music player on his belt. Benny is being a huge dork, dancing along to the music a little while he cooks. --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] stares at BB. Has never been exposed to this much dork in his entire life --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] just accept the dorkiness into your life. You will not regret it. --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] torn between laughing and vomiting --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] you know you love it --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] dont deny --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] dry heaves hously in the kitchen doorway --
CHI: *loudly
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] totally doesn't even hear, humming along with his music. It's probably jazz. --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] rolls his eyes and goes to the fridge --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] pops a lid on the eggs and hash, lowering the temperature on the stove. --
?BB: Done~!
CHI: You daNce lIKe a stabbed wrIGGler
?BB: ...?
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] pulls his headphones off a little, turning around, surprised to see HI. --
?BB: Oh! Hello!
CHI: ...
CHI: HI.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] swiping aple juice --
CHI: *apple
?BB: Would you like sthome breakfastht?
CHI: No thaNK you.
?BB: But it'sth reeeally goooood~.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] it's something like this http://blog.pennlive.com/italian-kitchen/2009/03/large_Corned%20Beef%20Hash%20and%20Eggs.jpg --
CHI: No. I'm Not eatING aNythING a fucKING halflING made
?BB: Well, then I guesth you have to misth out.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] grabs a plate and takes the lid off the pan. The smell is AMAZING. He plates himself a helping and puts the lid back on the pan. --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] rolls his eyes and goes back to rummaging for leftovers --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] the leftovers are either cold scones, or stuff that was cooked daaaaaays ago and is starting to smell funny, especially compared to the delicious smell of Benjamin's cooking. --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] frowns and just swipes the apple juice --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] cold scones are nasty --
CHI: Who the fucK tauGht you to daNce? You should Get your moNey bacK
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] have fun with that grumbly stomach --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] chugging that apple juice --
?BB: Ahaha, no one. I know I can't dance very well. It wasth justht a little wiggling around. For fun!
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] rolls his eyes --
CHI: TypIcal
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?BB: Hahaha.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] leans against the counter, happily eating his eggs and hash. --
?BB: Mmm!
?BB: Thisth isth really good.
?BB: Sthure you don't want sthome?
CHI: Absolutely. You lowbloods doN't KNow what Good food tastes lIKe, aNd I'm Not ruINING my palate wIth some slop
?BB: Technically, if we go by hemosthpectrum, my blood color would be fairly noble. And anywaysth, that you have to be of a certain antediluvian sthocial clasth in order to understhtand what good food tasthtesth like sthoundsth very unrealisthtic to me.
CHI: You're stIll lower thaN me, AND you're a fucKING laNd dweller
CHI: The lower you are, the worst your tastes are
?BB: But again, antediluvian sthocial clasthesth. It'sth not like my blood mattersth.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] facepalms --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] just smiles, happily eating his breakfast --
CHI: DIdN't your lusus teach you aNythING? Or were you rasIed by howlbeasts?
?BB: My lusthii were a blueblooded troll and a human, and both were very eloquent and intelligent. They taught me proper valuesth, sthuch asth treating othersth how I wisthh to be treated.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] snorts --
CHI: You'd be dead IN fIve mINutes oN AlterNIa
?BB: Nonsthensthe. I'm actually a fairly decent fighter. I'd rather not resthort to violence, but sthhould I have to, I've been taught very well.
CHI: Keep tellING yourself that. AlterNIa Is NothING lIKe thIs... place
?BB: Well, of coursthe not! Thisth place isth much better.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile --
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] froooown --
CHI: It's dIsGustING here
?BB: Well, that justht sthhowsth how poor your valuesth are.
CHI: I could say the same for you, halflING
?BB: Unfortunately for you, I am the one that isth correct. Sthince your valuesth include misthtreating othersth purely becausthe of a facet of their biology that they could not help being born with, you are automatically wrong.
CHI: They're leftover bIoloGIcal waste the Mother Grub threw toGether to Get It out of the way
CHI: They doN't eveN lIve loNG eNouGh to matter
?BB: Are you a mother grub? Do you really, truly know how they work?
?BB: I don't think stho.
?BB: You can't really sthay you know the truth when you don't even have all the factsth.
CHI: I'm a fucKING Emperor. I KNow exactly how they fucKING worK.
?BB: There have been thousthandsth of leadersth throughout the histhtory of universthesth who have known very little about how anything the rule over worksth.
?BB: Being an emperor hasth no bearing on what you know.
?BB: Esthpecially when you act stho ignorant.
CHI: You've Never eveN beeN to the bIrthING caverNs, have you?
CHI: Lowblooded eGGs are soft aNd weaK. DespIte there beING so maNy of them, more thaN half are duds
?BB: And?
?BB: You stheem to think that that mattersth.
CHI: Have you ever trIed rulING over somethING that barely lIves loNG eNouGh to compreheNd aNythING?
?BB: How one isth born, how long they live, how their biology worksth, hasth no bearing on what sthomeone'sth worth asth a persthon isth. To think stho isth very bigoted.
CHI: I have Never seeN a lowblood do aNythING worthwhIle IN theIr lIfe
?BB: I have.,
CHI: Most just bItch aNd complaIN about what they doN't have
?BB: Well that justht sthhowsth how little experience you have!
?BB: Then again, stheeing asth you purposthely go out of your way to avoid the "low" blooded, it justht goesth to sthhow you'd have stho little experience.
CHI: ANd who are you to judGe MY level of experIaNce?
CHI: You caN't eveN compreheNd WHY I avoId them
?BB: You avoid them becausthe they are different and your outdated, immoral valuesth causthe you to sthee your fellow people asth lower than you.
CHI: I avoId them because they're uNusally stupId for fucKING trolls. They waNt more thaN what they've come INto, aNd belIve they caN just have It because they waNt It
?BB: Mmm, your bigotry isth sthhowing again. You asthume you know all about how "low" bloodsth work. And consthidering how you treat them, you stheem to think they sthhould be perfectly happy with being usthed and abusthed by thosthe who deem themsthelvesth "higher" purely becausthe of chancey biology. That you think sthomeone who isth downtrodden isth sthtupid for wanting more than what their outdated sthocial sthtructure forced them to be sthtuck with purely becausthe of how they were born sthhowsth how poor your moral compasth isth. I can't imagine who your lusthusth mustht have been. I feel sthorry for you.
CHI: Allow me to GIve you aN example, seeING as you're obvIously Not GrapsING the full coNcept
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] sets aside his now empty plate and leans casually against the counter, crossing his ankles. He's still smiling. --
CHI: At fIve sweeps, I was rulING throuGh a board of advIsors(because No oNe would lIsteN to a fIve sweep Emperor, eveN wIth all of the traINING). ONe day, a marooNblood had requested aN audIeNce wIth me aNd them. MINd you, there Is a lot of leGal red tape oNe has to Go throuGh to do so, aNd theN there's travel fees, room aNd board, ect ect . She comes to us aNd asKes If we could spare laNd for her to expaNd her
busINess oN, because she was poor aNd lowblooded aNd couldN't Get aNyoNe to sell to her aNd so oN aNd so forth. HavING heard her case, we weNt aNd pulled up her fIle. Her busINess had pleNty of room for what she had, aNd had the poNeNtIal to be Great wIthout expaNdING. Her whole Issue was Not that she Needed more space, but better maNaGemeNt. I meaN, really, the moNey she speNt GettING to the capItal aNd speaKING </c
wIth me could have GoNe much father If she had INvested IN sImple upGrades for her busINess. I spoKe wIth her persoNally about It, aNd she accused me of beING a hypocrIte because I'm aN Emperor, I have all of thIs wealth aNd I dIdN't have to lIft a fINGer. Do you KNow that there's fIve tyrIaNblooded Grubs borN every sweep? I set her up IN the capItol uNtIl the Next bIrthING, aNd I had her watch wIth me the
TyrIaN trIals those Grubs had to Go throuGh. It was quIte brutal, eveN for me. Needless to say, she left wIthout a word aNd weNt bacK to her busINess.
?BB: I'm sthorry. That'sth all well and interesthting, and yet it sthtill doesth nothing to disthuade me that your moralsth are bigoted and outdated. Isth one experience with one girl sthupposthed to allow you to generalize abstholutely everyone that you deem lower than yoursthelf? Doesth your experience with any number of "low" bloodsth allow you to generalize and misthtreat any sthingle one of them due to your sthupposthed sthtatusth from a cruel and antediluvian sthociety? No, it doesth not. Until you can sthpeak with abstholutely every sthingle troll "lower" than you, without biasth, and learn about them and their motivesth, you cannot generalize a sthingle one of them.
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CHI: I doN't KNow aNyoNe who has the tIme to speaK to every fucKING troll oN AlterNIa. EIther way, there's a damN Good chaNce I have spoKeN to more trolls IN every caste thaN you ever wIll IN your eNtIre lIfetIme. ANd for fucK's saKe, stop callING my world old fashIoNed. You must realIze that for me, that world Is stIll quIte curreNt, ad wIll coNtINue to be so here as sooN as socIal order starts preseNtING
Itsself. It's how my people, YOUR people are. You've GrowN up IN aN bacKworlds lIttle bubble here, aNd you'll sooN be payING quIte dearly for It
?BB: Your world wasth old fasthhioned even asth it wasth current. And it doesthn't matter how many trollsth you've sthpoken to. Unlesth you've sthpoken to them all, you cannot judge them all, that'sth sthimply how it worksth. And on the sthubject of thisth planet being "backwardsth", asth opposthed to the bigoted world you love that punisthhesth people justht for being born... Mostht everyone here isth happy. The only onesth on thisth planet that are unhappy, that causthe trouble, are the onesth with your bigoted mindsthet, in which they believe people are inherently lower than them, purely due to the circumsthtancesth of their birth. Thosthe viewsth are backwardsth, thosthe viewsth causthe sthtrife and unhappinesth. THosthe who do not follow thosthe viewsth lead much happier and fulfilling livesth here.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] scoffs --
CHI: What do you eveN KNow about lIvING a happy aNd fufIllING lIfe?
CHI: What do you eveN KNow about aNYTHING?
?BB: I know that I love my parentsth and my family, and that they treat me well, and I treat them well. I know that when I am not doing choresth for my da, I have free time which I sthpend doing thingsth I love, sthuch asth sthailing and fisthhing and reading. I know that I have a boyfriend, a matesthprit, who lovesth me dearly and treatsth me stho very sthweetly. I know that every day I have stho many reasthonsth to sthmile, many of thosthe reasthonsth are that I sthee stho many othersth being happy and sthmiling, comfortable with their livesth here on thisth planet.
CHI: That doesN't meaN your lIfe Is fufIllING, HalflING. Do you eveN have Goals, or are you just some staNGNaNt THING out IN the mIddle of a poNd?
?BB: Oh, I have goalsth. I am giving it another sthweep to better learn the ropesth of sthailing, but I plan on sthailing all the stheasth on thisth planet in my lifetime. There'sth stho much of thisth planet that isth unexplored! I'd very much love to sthee what it hasth to offer. And of coursthe I'd take my matesthprit with me. He'sth a stheadweller, and would certainly appreciate exploring the oceansth with me, and disthcovering the unknown.
CHI: That's It?
CHI: That's all?
?BB: You stheem to have a problem with me wisthhing to do with my life what I pleasthe. That isth sthad.
?BB: And that you think stho lowly of my goalsth of learning and disthcovery... Clearly you're not much of an intellectual type, are you?
CHI: DoN't you at least feel the urGe to coNqure somethING? Or to destroy? ANYTHING lIKe that at all?
?BB: No. Why would anyone of sthane mind wisthh to do that? Why desthtroy thingsth, when insthtead I can enjoy their existhtance and learn more about them? What would be the point? If you chop down a tree, you'll never learn how tall it can grow.
CHI: If you chop dowN a tree, It caN be used to buIld your hIve.
CHI: Or IN your case, boat
CHI: DestructIoN ruNs IN every troll's blood
CHI: ReGardless of color
?BB: But not all treesth mustht be chopped down. Only thosthe by necesthity. I do not have any need for conquering anything. Therefore, I will not participate in it. I have no desthire to desthtroy thingsth without reasthon. My goal in knowlege.
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] is* --
CHI: ANd how wIll that KNowledGe of trees defeNd you, HalflING?
?BB: Why would I need my knowledge to defend me? If I need defensthe, I have my sthword and my fisthtsth. And that'sth only if I really need to fight. Many altercationsth can be stholved with wordsth alone.
CHI: Name oNe that you've quelled wIth your words
?BB: You. I sthtopped you from bothering or hurting my cousthin when we firstht met.
CHI: ...
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] smiles! --
CHI: What Is a cousIN?
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] family terms = what? --
?BB: Ah. Sthorry, I forget sthometimesth that not everyone isth familiar with human familial termsth. Let'sth justht sthay he'sth sthomeone I feel a nonromantic connection with. I grew up with him.
CHI: The jadeblooded fool?
?BB: He isth not a fool. But that isth him.
CHI: I see.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] is eyeing Benny a bit --
CHI: I dIdN't xpect a jadeblood to be tIed to aNyoNe. TheIr caste's duty Is solely to the Mother Grub
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] is relaxed, smiling as he leans back against the counter. Today He's wearing a handsome blue-gray sweatervest over a white, long-sleeved button-up, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. --
?BB: Well, consthidering there isth no casthte sthysthtem here, he isth allowed to do asth he pleasthesth with histh life. But he hasth many connectionsth, sthimilar to the one he sthharesth with me.
CHI: More of those humaN terms I taKe It?
?BB: Yesth, sthuch asth "sthisthter". That would be a female that one sthharesth a pregenitor with.
CHI: They female TyrIaNblood that lIKes to barGe INto people's respIteblocKs whIle they sleep?
?BB: Hahaha!
?BB: Oh, what hasth Costhmia been up to lately? I fear sthhe'sth picking up her brother'sth habitsth.
CHI: She weNt INto my mobIle housING uNtIl whIle I was sleepING aNd ...
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] shakes his head --
?BB: I think sthhe likesth you.
CHI: I doN't lIKe her.
?BB: I'm sthure sthhe'll be disthappointed.
CHI: She caN sucK a bulGe for all I care. I have No INterest IN her.
?BB: That isth a very crasth thing to sthay about a lady.
CHI: She's the oNe who came INto my place uNaNNouNced whIle I was sleepING, aNd IN my uNderGarmeNts
?BB: I'm sthure sthhe had her reasthonsth.
?BB: Sthhe usthually quite a reasthonable young lady.
CHI: She Got offeNded that I was mad at her INterruptING my sleep
CHI: TheN she paralyzed me wIth her NeedleworK aNd threateNed me
?BB: Hahahaha!!
?BB: Oh my goodnesth, I wisthh I wasth there to sthee that.
CHI: I wIsh I hadN't beeN
?BB: My apologiesth, it justht sthoundsth hilariousth.
?BB: Mosthtly in thyat I've never heard of Costhmia acting stho rasthhly.
CHI: I thINK she's Nuts
?BB: I think sthhe'sth a wonderful young woman.
CHI: She dIdN't KNow what a horrorterror was
?BB: You are implying that her worth isth basthed on what sthhe knowsth.
CHI: I dId Not
CHI: I sImply stated that she dId Not KNow what oNe was
?BB: And?
CHI: ANd that I fouNder her meNtally dIsturbed based oN her actIoNs aGaINst me
?BB: Again, I am sthure sthhe had her reasthonsth that sthhe did not wisthh to sthhare with you.
?BB: Goodnesth, even when sthomeone would be consthidered nearly equal to you in your preciousth casthte sthysthtem, you sthtill find excusthesth to make yoursthelf stheem "better".
CHI: Her blood Is almost red. She's lower-eNd TyrIaN
?BB: Excusthesth.
CHI: She prIed INto my prIvate lIfe
?BB: I'm sthure sthhe had a good reasthon.
CHI: She heard me mumblING IN my sleep aNd attempted to use some sort of trIcK to Get me to speaK more
?BB: Alstho, technically, wouldn't a tyrian blood with lesth blue in their blood color be consthidered "higher", being further and further from the blue and indigo casthte than purple? I'm justht sthaying.
CHI: I've hoNestly Not eNcouNtered maNy of my owN who survIve the trIals. I would assume red would be lower, because brIGht red Is mutaNt aNd marooN Is lowest
?BB: Yesth, but the hemosthpectrum isth basthed on the sthpectrum of light. The bluer a tyrian, the more closther to the the "lower" casthtesth it would be. The rainbow isth a sthpectrum of colorsth that wrapsth around itsthelf. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and back to red. The "highestht" posthible color in the hemosthpectrum would actually be nearly red, but with sthtill justht enough of a blue tint to make it purple.
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CHI: We caN talK color all day, but It doesN't matter. I KNow half of her blood comes from a mustardblood
?BB: Consthidering you were born from the incesthtrousth sthlurry of Alternia'sth mothergrub, you do realize you yoursthelf come from nearly all the blood colorsth you desthpisthe?
CHI: If you're tryING to Get me to hate myself, It woN't worK
?BB: I'm not. I'm trying to get you to realize how sthilly you're being.
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CHI: I'm Not beING sIlly
?BB: You mostht certainly are.
CHI: You started thIs whole thING
CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] suddenly, Wivken --
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] guess who's got his lab in boxes? --
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] this troll --
?BB: I sthtarted it by offering you a deliciousth and wholesthome breakfastht, which you denied only becausthe of your sthtaunch, old fasthhioned viewsth.
?BB: (( hi EB! ))
CHI: (( Hi!))
CHI: I refused because I doN't trust your cooKING
?BB: And why not?
?BB: I am an excellent cook, my friendsth and family sthay stho all the time.
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] sets his boxes down and heads to Benny --
?BB: Wivken!
CHI: You're a halfblood
CHI: That's all I Need
?BB: And again, you basthe your asthumptionsth of me basthed on you antediluvian moralsth.
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] taps Benny on the shoulder --
?BB: But that justht meansth more deliciousth food for everyone but you.
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] eyes AC --
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] turns to Wivken, smiling. --
?BB: Yesth, love?
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] snogs --
CHI: !!
?BB: Mmp!
-- ??? blueberryBosun [?BB] swoons a little, one of his feet kicking up a little --
CURRENT artemisEntreri [CAE] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CAE: Goodness, so empty.))
?BB: (( i knoooow. but hi! ))
CAE: Hi! :D))
-- CURRENT aggregateCarnage [CAC] holds him steady, kissing him more before ending the kiss --
CAC: Hell()~
?BB: (( benny and HI have been arguing about morals for 2 hours ))
CHI: ((Yup))
-- CURRENT horrendousImperator [CHI] dry heaving again --