Yeah, maybe, I think you're right about that. It's kind of like how I can get along with people that I wouldn't think I'd be able to. [ He's playing a bit coy, but maybe he can explain himself. ]
Part of my job is sometimes to get to know villains and I think some of them can be good people, even friends maybe, except they're just doing things I can't support.
Mm, isn't that one of the things in life? We meet people who we don't dislike as people, but who we just... can't agree with what they believe in. Even when we do care for them, or they care for us.
( She shrugs, a little amused, a little melancholy. )
Don't need to be villains. Almost easier when we can see them that way. Makes it more clear-cut, doesn't it?
For some people, sure. Maybe that's a big part of how the system works, I don't know. [ He's just one guy. ]
Because I've spent so much time with them, that might be why I see them differently. I think a lot of the people I've met had their reasons. Sometimes good reasons, real desperation, and while I can't let them continue to commit crimes, there's a failure somewhere that drove them to that point. I'm familiar with those too.
It... depends on the system. Or the power in the shadows behind what looks like a certain part of any system.
Mm, that's the thing though. Everyone has their reasons. Better ones, worse ones, but even 'heroes' ( she changes her tone around that word, as if to highlight it as she speaks, ) are motivated by different things, aren't they? Helping isn't always for the same reason. People help each other out all the time for the failures in what's around them... or they sink further into the cracks that society doesn't try to build ladders back out of.
( And she knows those places better than she'd like, even if she'd never personally recalled having been there. )
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Part of my job is sometimes to get to know villains and I think some of them can be good people, even friends maybe, except they're just doing things I can't support.
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( She shrugs, a little amused, a little melancholy. )
Don't need to be villains. Almost easier when we can see them that way. Makes it more clear-cut, doesn't it?
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Because I've spent so much time with them, that might be why I see them differently. I think a lot of the people I've met had their reasons. Sometimes good reasons, real desperation, and while I can't let them continue to commit crimes, there's a failure somewhere that drove them to that point. I'm familiar with those too.
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Mm, that's the thing though. Everyone has their reasons. Better ones, worse ones, but even 'heroes' ( she changes her tone around that word, as if to highlight it as she speaks, ) are motivated by different things, aren't they? Helping isn't always for the same reason. People help each other out all the time for the failures in what's around them... or they sink further into the cracks that society doesn't try to build ladders back out of.
( And she knows those places better than she'd like, even if she'd never personally recalled having been there. )