"So you got treated like a thing and now you're gonna kick over the table and leave?" Zetta said. "That's pretty demonly of you. But....
"Look. I don't think you're seeing the big picture here, so let me pose a question to you: if you're all so damn sure that making this planet better is the right thing to do, why are you trying to bring back the cosmos to begin with?"
Demons weren't like people. Mercurial and prone to living in the moment, they rarely showed any of the weight of their years. Also, Zetta was a book. But nevertheless, he drew himself up to his full height, such as it was, to encompass the room with his blank white gaze.
"I'm older than all of you put together, and I've seen a lot more of the cosmos and its countless different universes than any of you, and let me tell you, if this is bothering you then you're thin-skinned as hell. The cosmos is a pretty crappy place with a lot of stuff like this going on, and now everyone here's setting themselves up to play Dark Court on this society. So what... when we get to the end of our road and win, are you guys gonna insist on picking and choosing which worlds come back and which don't? You gonna write off every Netherworld because it doesn't meet your 'moral standards'? Wish every world with a setup like this one back into existence, but tell them if they don't clean up their act you'll destroy them again? Or can you justify bringing back a world of slavery and tyranny that was destroyed, but not leaving one you ran across alone just because 'it's there'? In short, speaking for the demons, devils, nasties, villains, and bad guys -- why the hell should we trust you to be objective about the cosmos if you can't be objective about one damn planet?
"Call me crazy, but if I was the GIA, I'd be asking myself that question right about now, and maybe I'd even set up a crew to see if they COULD make the decision that saving the cosmos is more important than their moral objections to some of the stuff that goes on in it. And if they couldn't make that decision, but some of the crew on their other ships could, which crew gets the job and which crew gets Prison Ship Stacy back in all her full, Punishment-dealing glory?"
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"Look. I don't think you're seeing the big picture here, so let me pose a question to you: if you're all so damn sure that making this planet better is the right thing to do, why are you trying to bring back the cosmos to begin with?"
Demons weren't like people. Mercurial and prone to living in the moment, they rarely showed any of the weight of their years. Also, Zetta was a book. But nevertheless, he drew himself up to his full height, such as it was, to encompass the room with his blank white gaze.
"I'm older than all of you put together, and I've seen a lot more of the cosmos and its countless different universes than any of you, and let me tell you, if this is bothering you then you're thin-skinned as hell. The cosmos is a pretty crappy place with a lot of stuff like this going on, and now everyone here's setting themselves up to play Dark Court on this society. So what... when we get to the end of our road and win, are you guys gonna insist on picking and choosing which worlds come back and which don't? You gonna write off every Netherworld because it doesn't meet your 'moral standards'? Wish every world with a setup like this one back into existence, but tell them if they don't clean up their act you'll destroy them again? Or can you justify bringing back a world of slavery and tyranny that was destroyed, but not leaving one you ran across alone just because 'it's there'? In short, speaking for the demons, devils, nasties, villains, and bad guys -- why the hell should we trust you to be objective about the cosmos if you can't be objective about one damn planet?
"Call me crazy, but if I was the GIA, I'd be asking myself that question right about now, and maybe I'd even set up a crew to see if they COULD make the decision that saving the cosmos is more important than their moral objections to some of the stuff that goes on in it. And if they couldn't make that decision, but some of the crew on their other ships could, which crew gets the job and which crew gets Prison Ship Stacy back in all her full, Punishment-dealing glory?"