No, I'm aware of that. What's the expression? "No plan survives contact with the enemy."
[ Honestly, Qubit's not a big planner to begin with. Preparing for every conceivable permutation of events is a waste of time and resources; it's more efficient to make general plans for a handful of the most likely scenarios, and leave the rest to improvisation, which he's better at anyway. ]
But how you respond in the moment is critical. Every time you commit to a course of action, you change the kind of responses you'll have available in future.
When you're a force for good, for justice, people respond to you one way - they trust you, cooperate, make resources available to you. But the moment you start performing summary executions, you can kiss all of that goodbye. Once we let ourselves become killers, the Paradigm would be nothing more than a gang of dangerous vigilantes. A glorified lynch mob.
[ It's clear he and Carlisle disagree on the morality of taking one life to save others, but that wasn't the only reason the Paradigm was so strictly against it. ]
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No, I'm aware of that. What's the expression? "No plan survives contact with the enemy."
[ Honestly, Qubit's not a big planner to begin with. Preparing for every conceivable permutation of events is a waste of time and resources; it's more efficient to make general plans for a handful of the most likely scenarios, and leave the rest to improvisation, which he's better at anyway. ]
But how you respond in the moment is critical. Every time you commit to a course of action, you change the kind of responses you'll have available in future.
When you're a force for good, for justice, people respond to you one way - they trust you, cooperate, make resources available to you. But the moment you start performing summary executions, you can kiss all of that goodbye. Once we let ourselves become killers, the Paradigm would be nothing more than a gang of dangerous vigilantes. A glorified lynch mob.
[ It's clear he and Carlisle disagree on the morality of taking one life to save others, but that wasn't the only reason the Paradigm was so strictly against it. ]