[ She can see his expression harden, experienced in her younger years with reading faces and reading body posture, looking to find the meanings that can cue her in to what's going on. Survival depends on reading those cues; they're more difficult, on a tiny screen, staring at a fraction of the man speaking with her on the other side.
She wonders if the concept of a mercy killing is considered taboo in this country, or just his own. If it's taboo across all of this vast, wide world. What a strange thing to grant animals, how callous, really, when denying humanity the option to die on their own terms.
How inhumane. Only she knows it'd be called otherwise... and she can understand why, too. ]
Not even mercy killings on the battlefield?
[ Is their technology so amazing they can save even the most destroyed of lives? This porter business doesn't explain the billions of people worldwide.
His words on this crazy holiday... Annie looks perplexed, frowning. How pointless. How ridiculous. How... ]
Stupid. What kind of idiotic holiday is that, trying to outgift another person, and being expected to do that? Impulsiveness like that won't be responsible. Taking responsibility for lives for a justification like that...
[ She snorts. Honestly, it's the concept that's so alien to her. People do like to give gifts, it's a human thing, when one can afford it, and gifts can be time to company to something more manufactured than either of those.
Here, she hears about disposability, excess. People rich enough to throw away things like they don't matter. ]
meanwhile i flail at trying to keep up today FLAILS REALLY ARTFULLY
She wonders if the concept of a mercy killing is considered taboo in this country, or just his own. If it's taboo across all of this vast, wide world. What a strange thing to grant animals, how callous, really, when denying humanity the option to die on their own terms.
How inhumane. Only she knows it'd be called otherwise... and she can understand why, too. ]
Not even mercy killings on the battlefield?
[ Is their technology so amazing they can save even the most destroyed of lives? This porter business doesn't explain the billions of people worldwide.
His words on this crazy holiday... Annie looks perplexed, frowning. How pointless. How ridiculous. How... ]
Stupid. What kind of idiotic holiday is that, trying to outgift another person, and being expected to do that? Impulsiveness like that won't be responsible. Taking responsibility for lives for a justification like that...
[ She snorts. Honestly, it's the concept that's so alien to her. People do like to give gifts, it's a human thing, when one can afford it, and gifts can be time to company to something more manufactured than either of those.
Here, she hears about disposability, excess. People rich enough to throw away things like they don't matter. ]
... It's so pointless. Human, and pointless.