"Honestly? I wish it was. In my personal experience, people are generally good to one another, even when they're at cross-purposes. But we're not dealing with that kind of system here, we've been thrown back to the old days, when people knew they were going to run out of time. All the safety nets are gone.
You want to know what the deepest mourning was for in the last five millenia? A lightbulb. It was a beautiful bulb, in a way it was my own ancestor, spiritually speaking, but it was just a glass bubble with some tungsten in it. What's happening here is going to be so much worse than that. Even assuming we're all nice people, which is a stretch, everyone's idea of what 'good intentions' even means is going to be misaligned. Tto some degree or another, they're going to start acting like. I don't know. Animals.
So.
I'm infinitely more patient than a human is going to be, and I'm not the kind of scientific instrument who jumps to conclusions... But you've got to be kidding me if you think that that's going to be enough."
It's hard to do narrative with Ten. She just kinda sits there. :/
You want to know what the deepest mourning was for in the last five millenia? A lightbulb. It was a beautiful bulb, in a way it was my own ancestor, spiritually speaking, but it was just a glass bubble with some tungsten in it. What's happening here is going to be so much worse than that. Even assuming we're all nice people, which is a stretch, everyone's idea of what 'good intentions' even means is going to be misaligned. Tto some degree or another, they're going to start acting like. I don't know. Animals.
So.
I'm infinitely more patient than a human is going to be, and I'm not the kind of scientific instrument who jumps to conclusions... But you've got to be kidding me if you think that that's going to be enough."