"We can all start by just trying to be the best people we can while doing this."
His mouth pressed into a line.
"That said, I'm sorry for how I talked to you. I was pissed off at everything going down, and you were flipping your lip like I did when I dumb and younger and there's nothing worse than being confronted with something that reminds you of your own stupidity...but that's no excuse for taking it out on you and talking to you like you were an idiot. Even if I thought what you were saying was dumb, I had no right to talk down to you. So I'm sorry for that."
Never let it be said that he wasn't able to man up and own up to his own mistakes.
"What I was thinking then and didn't know how to say: it's just...not cool to laugh off or mock stuff where people are getting treated like crap. And I'm still going to stand by what I said: there is absolutely no comparison between being treated like a kid and being told you're government property and that you'll be 'decommissioned' if you're 'defective.' You don't have the same context, the growing up in a test tube, the clone angst, wondering if you're even a person at all."
He went on, "I know you have to be tough. You're in the same line of work as me, and for people with no powers--I know it's practically a war zone. But being tough isn't the same as not giving a crap about injustice. Even if we had to keep it cool, a real hero would at least understand why we were flipping about the rights thing, about being treated like things. Even if you thought we had to do things a certain way and get over it for the mission, you could have respected us as people."
That was what he'd wanted to say, and he managed it much more nicely this time.
"Being the pragmatic girl in the room? Hell, we might need that sometimes, even I can admit that. But in the end, if you don't care about all that stuff like rights, about people who get screwed over, at least enough to give people some understanding as to why they'd be pissed off about something--if you'd go so far as to mock them having problems with it--what are you even fighting for?"
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His mouth pressed into a line.
"That said, I'm sorry for how I talked to you. I was pissed off at everything going down, and you were flipping your lip like I did when I dumb and younger and there's nothing worse than being confronted with something that reminds you of your own stupidity...but that's no excuse for taking it out on you and talking to you like you were an idiot. Even if I thought what you were saying was dumb, I had no right to talk down to you. So I'm sorry for that."
Never let it be said that he wasn't able to man up and own up to his own mistakes.
"What I was thinking then and didn't know how to say: it's just...not cool to laugh off or mock stuff where people are getting treated like crap. And I'm still going to stand by what I said: there is absolutely no comparison between being treated like a kid and being told you're government property and that you'll be 'decommissioned' if you're 'defective.' You don't have the same context, the growing up in a test tube, the clone angst, wondering if you're even a person at all."
He went on, "I know you have to be tough. You're in the same line of work as me, and for people with no powers--I know it's practically a war zone. But being tough isn't the same as not giving a crap about injustice. Even if we had to keep it cool, a real hero would at least understand why we were flipping about the rights thing, about being treated like things. Even if you thought we had to do things a certain way and get over it for the mission, you could have respected us as people."
That was what he'd wanted to say, and he managed it much more nicely this time.
"Being the pragmatic girl in the room? Hell, we might need that sometimes, even I can admit that. But in the end, if you don't care about all that stuff like rights, about people who get screwed over, at least enough to give people some understanding as to why they'd be pissed off about something--if you'd go so far as to mock them having problems with it--what are you even fighting for?"