"Why do you keep watching this?"
It's like a trainwreck. You just can't look away, in morbid fascination.
Because 'compassion' doesn't just mean 'being nice to nice people', it doesn't just mean 'for the deserving'. It has to, has to, mean everyone.
Even the people who claim they don't want it...
She.. literally tore her hair out of her scalp.
Ow...
"-to executives, but leave it to James to cover all the bases."
Seriously, lady, you think Butcher would go that far... No, wait, he would.
"Would you like me to clean you up? You appear to be in a somewhat distressed state."
'Distressed' is such a
mild understatement...
That is a hell of a lot of
Red...
"And if you're really set on killing yourself, I won't stop you."
There's a slight.. flinch, but yes, she's
decided. Extreme risk-taking at least. There's no gun… What's the best way to-?
The Derren Brown approach? Hm,
might work. But what
angle-?
Yes, it's extreme, what he says, but look at the
Black in her here...
"Oh, don't worry, I'll clean it up before anyone sees it. In fact, I can fix up everything. You'll leave a beautiful corpse." I pause for effect. "For me to have sex with."
It's not what he's saying, really, its the matter-of-fact tone he's using...
"No, of course not. You can't rape a corpse." I pause again. "In this state. It's a completely different criminal offence."
'Interfering with a cadaver' or the like, usually.
She stares at me in horror.
At least the
Black's gone.
She manages to blink. "Whhhhhhhhrrr-?"
Bradley.exe has stopped working, please reboot.
...If Mr Stillwell has fucked you anyway, there's really no reason not to fuck him right back."
Yup!
Being compassionate doesn't mean that I believe that reasonable and proportionate chastisement is unjust.
Remember, Good does not necessarily mean Nice.
