Entry 9 - 1640 hours

[agent_fumoffu]

While it's obviously a good thing that the moon's descent was stopped, this also likely means that internal strif on Earth will increase again. People are less likely to turn on each other when an omnipresent threat is looming over all of them - now that it's gone, the usual acts of war and terrorism will almost certainly increase back to their

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[harisen_wielder]

Look on the bright side. At least it means the riots will go down as well as tempers. It was annoying trying to deal with that stuff basically everyday.

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[harisen_wielder]

And that includes dealing with your solutions to those problems. Tear gas in the restaurant is not the way to deal with a drunk customer not wanting to pay his tab!

[agent_fumoffu]

He was quickly becoming a danger to himself and everyone around him! The best way to deal with such a disturbance is a quick, decisive resolution.

[harisen_wielder]

By endangering everyone else in the restaurant in the process?! Do you know how much I had to apologize for you? Even then I still lost my job there. That makes the twelfth part-time job in less than six months!

[in_yo_veda]

I'd argue that, in this case, the presence of the looming threat was causing sufficient chaos and panic that removing it would improve stability.

It's not as if the descent of the moon was reducing the amount of infighting on Earth in the first place. It was even less effective in that regard than our Armed Interventions.

[agent_fumoffu]

There does seem to be a certain degree of disparity between the theory and practice on the matter.

[in_yo_veda]

Human behavior, even in aggregate over the entire population, can be almost impossible to predict. Chaos Theory applies to societies in the same way it applies to quantum physics.

[agent_fumoffu]

Whatever the reality of the situation, we should be prepared for the worst-case scenario.