"Who cares if they're watching or not!" Daniel was too seconds away from throwing his hands up in frustration. This was like trying to reign in a crowd of angry alley cats. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm not going to get bullied around by the GIA to do my job. I don't care who it is. And I'm not trying to get out of anything, Zetta. I'm saying we need more time to look around before we make any serious action."
He looked gratefully to Sakura. Someone got it. Although he was surprised that Zetta had picked up the very points he had told Jr. earlier, about cultural perspective.
"No, they probably don't think so. But they do know we found something wrong with it because their action had a consequence: negotiations were shut down. However, the fact that you two attacked them puts us in a bad position. We had them in a position where the onus was on them to make amends for the offense. Now we just insulted them. We lost our advantage."
Daniel went on thoughtfully. "I'm just not so sure it's all due to a serious divide between us. Even if it was just a matter of cultural perspective, they aren't acting as they should. They actually answered your questions," and he glanced to the clones closest to him, "If they really were following the parameters of their society, they would have ignored you. They wouldn't have scrambled communications either, because as a non-person, you wouldn't have been considered capable of using them or even a 'threat' in the first place if you had. It strikes me as deliberate. I don't think this is all due to miscommunication."
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He looked gratefully to Sakura. Someone got it. Although he was surprised that Zetta had picked up the very points he had told Jr. earlier, about cultural perspective.
"No, they probably don't think so. But they do know we found something wrong with it because their action had a consequence: negotiations were shut down. However, the fact that you two attacked them puts us in a bad position. We had them in a position where the onus was on them to make amends for the offense. Now we just insulted them. We lost our advantage."
Daniel went on thoughtfully. "I'm just not so sure it's all due to a serious divide between us. Even if it was just a matter of cultural perspective, they aren't acting as they should. They actually answered your questions," and he glanced to the clones closest to him, "If they really were following the parameters of their society, they would have ignored you. They wouldn't have scrambled communications either, because as a non-person, you wouldn't have been considered capable of using them or even a 'threat' in the first place if you had. It strikes me as deliberate. I don't think this is all due to miscommunication."