hadriel | 014 [Video] /dated to a few hours after Yusuke's anon post

[Lance looks a little over life at the moment, which most of his friends probably recognize as his standard look when not being purposefully professional. He's not bothering with the latter right now, both because he's a bit annoyed and because he thinks it would be pointless, so instead everyone gets normal, slightly bitchy Lance.]

Okay, I wish I could say that I can't believe I have to remind people of this, but vigilante justice is not exactly the best idea here. Not only is it morally wrong to just declare yourself to have the authority to decide who is and isn't deserving of 'justice', but it's logically wrong too; you're just going to cause problems, not solve them.

I'm not saying not to intervene when something's actively happening, but going after someone days or weeks later is just starting the whole process of retaliation all over again. So can everyone just take their egos down a notch and, if they're concerned about someone being an active threat or something, work on coming up with some sort of solution that isn't going to make things worse as soon as it's done?

[This is not the first time he's had to go into this discussion while here--or at home--and so that's why he's being extra short about it. He's also not just talking about the recent incident, it's simply what prompted him to say something this time.]

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[this place makes less and less sense and seems more and more backwards by the day. so have a video of a confused looking fifteen year old girl wearing something that looks like a costume]

So this is something that happens often? People taking the law into their own hands?

Edited 2018-10-21 05:14 (UTC)

Often enough that it's been a problem, yes.

[Unfortunately.]

[she sounds and looks confused]

But, I'm a member of the Guard and I was told that there are no official laws in place, so what's to stop them from doing it again?

There's nothing to stop anyone from doing anything, other than morals or logic, the former of which isn't too popular here. That's why I'm going with the logical approach, which is that this 'solution' just causes even more problems.

Yeah, I can't imagine anyone being happy stuck in an ice prison for a whole month. Somebody who's already dangerous? That's only going to make things worse when she's freed. Is she the type to take it out on the town as a whole or do you think she'll go after the person responsible first?

I don't know, exactly, and neither do the people who know her better than I do, and so we're attempting to come up with plans for different scenarios.

[she looks off-camera and releases an exasperated sigh. the exasperation isn't directed at him, though, it's at the situation as a whole]

Mind if I ask what those plans are?

The first and easiest is to just try to convince her it's less beneficial to her in the long run to retaliate, although that's only going to work is people also agree to leave her alone unless she does something new.

Edited 2018-10-26 00:14 (UTC)

And what are the odds of people agreeing to that?

In this place? Not great, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth trying.