The other crew hadn't mentioned anything about hating the Ohm -- not even Cargn, who'd seen them. Their strangely relaxed attitudes about the Ohm had seemed strange when he was podpopped, but he'd attributed that to the ship's mind rub. And that had been less disturbing than the suggestion that they should fight on the strength of their hate. They're not Jedi, he told himself, but it still alarmed him. The non-Jedi members of the Guard who fought to settle personal scores were always the ones who performed a sloppy job, who got their companions in trouble. And if everyone else felt the same way, there wouldn't be a way to end the fighting short of xenocide.
"That's a dangerous way to talk," he said cautiously. "It sets us up to fight them until one side is gone -- and it sounds like, even if we win, it will be one long, ugly war. And that sort of thinking doesn't give us room to find out why they're so angry or scared and stop the fighting."
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The other crew hadn't mentioned anything about hating the Ohm -- not even Cargn, who'd seen them. Their strangely relaxed attitudes about the Ohm had seemed strange when he was podpopped, but he'd attributed that to the ship's mind rub. And that had been less disturbing than the suggestion that they should fight on the strength of their hate. They're not Jedi, he told himself, but it still alarmed him. The non-Jedi members of the Guard who fought to settle personal scores were always the ones who performed a sloppy job, who got their companions in trouble. And if everyone else felt the same way, there wouldn't be a way to end the fighting short of xenocide.
"That's a dangerous way to talk," he said cautiously. "It sets us up to fight them until one side is gone -- and it sounds like, even if we win, it will be one long, ugly war. And that sort of thinking doesn't give us room to find out why they're so angry or scared and stop the fighting."