[ And yes, at least one will be about Chernobyl. Harold is usually more subtle but in this case subtlety is too much of a risk. ]
No, that's hardly the worst case scenario. But either you take responsibility for the uses of your creation or you take responsibility for the consequences of not doing so.
Harold's not wrong, and maybe another time Jayce would have explained to Harold further the situation he's in- the power struggles involved in Jinx's theft of his gemstone, what she's already done with it- how by Harold's rule, that puts him directly at fault for Viktor's death-
He feels acid rising in his throat and instead sends:]
[ He should blame himself, but his emotional angst about it is not productive. He still has to deal with it. And preventing future problems is, in Harold's opinion, step one. Jayce wouldn't be in this position if he'd done this earlier.
He notices the refusal to commit to nullifying gemstones but doesn't comment on it yet. ]
I assume since you departed the library that your immediate threat is dealt with?
[ Taking tiny pieces of information and extrapolating from there is, in fact, Harold's whole specialty. He can put these pieces together and realize it's the person from Jayce's world who's in possession of a gemstone that they're talking about. ]
On the contrary, a lack of trust would be a refusal to extend a chance in the first place. Verifying is merely refusing to be duped.
The potential fallout is too great to leave things to trust alone.
[Ah. That kind of question. Well, it doesn't have anything to do with anything current, so he can be open about this without consequence.]
Anyone who needed it.
When I was five, a mage saved my mom and I's life. We had been stuck in a blizzard, the snow too thick to even see in front of us. My mother passed out, and I couldn't have helped her. But then a mage showed up out of nowhere, like he had heard me calling for help. He teleported me and my mother to safety without a single word- no demand for payment, no favors. Just kindness. That's when I knew mages were just misunderstood- when I knew magic could help people like it helped me.
[ Harold had been trying to save his father, so he assumed there was something to it. (Not that he will, in a million thousand years, share that little tidbit.) Maybe that's presumptuous, but it'd been borne out in a story that is comparable enough. ]
I hadn't realized magical practitioners were ostracized. The possibility for Hextech existed all along, but prejudice prevented anyone from realizing it?
The mutants here (they call themselves that, don't look at me) don't like the comparison I make to the mages of my world, but it's the same story. People born with the ability to do incredible things, hated and isolated out of fear by those without powers. There are stories of mages who have destroyed whole races, vanquished civilizations- but haven't people always done that? It's not unique to mages. They can just do it without guns.
Hextech was always going to happen- it was only a matter of time. If it wasn't Viktor and I who discovered it, it would have been someone who wants it to be a weapon for war. The fact we have interest from war-mongering countries on our doorstep when I last was home is proof enough.
Yes. I've seen nothing fundamentally different about anyone I've met here with extrahuman abilities. Actual power is not necessary for such bigotry, and perceived foreignness is enough -- any kind of measurable difference will do. Humanity has discovered and re-discovered the same things over and over because we fail to learn from one another.
We call them weapons of mass destruction, and it's another similarity with nuclear energy. The thought that it could be misappropriated for large scale death and suffering is chilling but unsurprising to me.
Of course. It could power the whole sun without damaging the environment or exploiting human labor, if used correctly and safely. Resource extraction has been a primary driver of man's inhumanity to man for thousands of years. The potential to reduce suffering is immense.
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[ And yes, at least one will be about Chernobyl. Harold is usually more subtle but in this case subtlety is too much of a risk. ]
No, that's hardly the worst case scenario. But either you take responsibility for the uses of your creation or you take responsibility for the consequences of not doing so.
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[Best to not be subtle with him.
Harold's not wrong, and maybe another time Jayce would have explained to Harold further the situation he's in- the power struggles involved in Jinx's theft of his gemstone, what she's already done with it- how by Harold's rule, that puts him directly at fault for Viktor's death-
He feels acid rising in his throat and instead sends:]
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Then will you please let me help you prevent catastrophe? I'm not actually a professor, you know. Of any kind. That was a cover identity.
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I'll request the lab, we'll install the biometric security, and I'll make an anti-magic field as best I can.
[But that doesn't solve the main problem. It only solves future problems.]
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He notices the refusal to commit to nullifying gemstones but doesn't comment on it yet. ]
I assume since you departed the library that your immediate threat is dealt with?
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[Which, without clarification, seems a little strange to say.]
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I understand, and I commend the approach. Have you ever heard the phrase "trust but verify"? It's a Russian proverb that I recommend highly.
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Some people wouldn't consider that trust at all.
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On the contrary, a lack of trust would be a refusal to extend a chance in the first place. Verifying is merely refusing to be duped.
The potential fallout is too great to leave things to trust alone.
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Anyone who needed it.
When I was five, a mage saved my mom and I's life. We had been stuck in a blizzard, the snow too thick to even see in front of us. My mother passed out, and I couldn't have helped her. But then a mage showed up out of nowhere, like he had heard me calling for help. He teleported me and my mother to safety without a single word- no demand for payment, no favors. Just kindness. That's when I knew mages were just misunderstood- when I knew magic could help people like it helped me.
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I hadn't realized magical practitioners were ostracized. The possibility for Hextech existed all along, but prejudice prevented anyone from realizing it?
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Hextech was always going to happen- it was only a matter of time. If it wasn't Viktor and I who discovered it, it would have been someone who wants it to be a weapon for war. The fact we have interest from war-mongering countries on our doorstep when I last was home is proof enough.
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We call them weapons of mass destruction, and it's another similarity with nuclear energy. The thought that it could be misappropriated for large scale death and suffering is chilling but unsurprising to me.
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[It sounds so devastating similar.]
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