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[puppydogeyes]

What would you do if we had him in the brig, right now.
Ward.

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[jurisimpudent]

[A slight pause before:]

I'd be making the arrangements for a proper inquiry into his guilt. And until that inquiry was completed, I would be guarding him with my life.

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[puppydogeyes]

What if it was impossible to complete that inquiry.
What if he refused to answer any questions.

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[jurisimpudent]

That wouldn't matter. There would be ways to determine his guilt regardless of his silence.

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[puppydogeyes]

He'd be guilty of multiple murders.
Possibly war crimes.
Where you're from the sentence for that would be execution.

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[jurisimpudent]

Without question. But only once guilt was established.

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[puppydogeyes]

So we establish his guilt.
We execute him.
+ everything he knows goes with him.

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[jurisimpudent]

If you want to advocate for life imprisonment instead, you won't hear much resistance from me. But how is all of this relevant to the new arrival?

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[puppydogeyes]

We'd have to protect him from people every day on life imprisonment.
+ still never get any answers out of him.
I don't know.
I'm not an investigator.
But how is anything relevant to the new arrival?
Shit doesn't just happen for no reason around here.
He's the only 19.
He's from this universe.
Is Ward going to turn up to kill him so he can't leave too?

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[jurisimpudent]

I don't know, Tyke. Does any of that make him less than a person?

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[puppydogeyes]

Are you sure he's a person now?

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[jurisimpudent]

I am.

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[puppydogeyes]

What about Ward?
Resnik?
Smiley?

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[jurisimpudent]

All yes.

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[puppydogeyes]

Is that the easy answer.
Or is them not being people the easy answer.

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[jurisimpudent]

It's always easier to make your enemies into the "other" and to decide that they're not worth treating with dignity and compassion. Subjecting them to torture is easy. Murdering them is easy. Hating them is easy.

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[puppydogeyes]

It wouldn't be for you.
If we had to torture them.
If it was the only way to get answers.
To keep everyone else safe.
If we had to kill them.
To keep everyone safe.
That wouldn't be easy.

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[jurisimpudent]

I do what has to be done, but torture and killing never have to be done. There are always better alternatives.

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[puppydogeyes]

You wouldn't have to.
I don't know if this place is going to let any of us have those alternatives.

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[jurisimpudent]

That's rather self contradictory. Which is it - that I won't have to, or that I will have to because there are no other choices?

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[puppydogeyes]

If we had no alternatives, it would be me.
Not you or anyone else on the team.

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[jurisimpudent]

Tyke, you're the one who should do it less than anyone else.

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[puppydogeyes]

No.
You're my team, I can't order you to do anything I wouldn't.
That's my job.

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[jurisimpudent]

You were trained as a soldier, weren't you?

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[puppydogeyes]

Yes.

[Or at least, that's the closest comparison.]