17. nothing ever ends

[alexanderofny]

[Veidt, like everyone else, is pretty much totally and completely furious at the town right now. It's not just that it messed with his head, though.

It's also what it made him do.

He'd wanted to help this place, and the first idea that had come to him once again involved sacrificing a bunch of unwitting dupes to probable agony for a little bit of

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[hontobakabaka]

"To be fair, both are horrible. In one every decision must be judged and thought through with meticulous planning, and in the other... Well, I guess you'd have to get out of bed to go tot he bathroom occasionally."

[alexanderofny]

Would you find either even worth preserving.

[hontobakabaka]

"What you ask is more an aspect of morality. In some ways, people are very stupid and it takes a great threat to get them to actually do anything worthwhile. In other ways, they still are people and life is precious."

[She ponders a bit]

"But, I'm just a child, and deciding things like who lives and who dies is up to the so called adults. I just do what I must to be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning."

[alexanderofny]

[He slips the circlet into a cupboard in his desk.]

Yes, of course.

[pants_yourmove]

...

I guess it depends on the outcome?

[alexanderofny]

If nothing matters, then the outcome is predetermined. If everything is...

Well. What do you imagine the mass end result of all human actions to be.

[pants_yourmove]

I don't know. I guess it'd be interesting to find out what living in a world where chance played a part would be interesting.

[perfektsymmetry]

[This is not your normal friendly attentive student anymore.]

The latter. This world.

[alexanderofny]

I applaud your quick decisiveness.

[perfektsymmetry]

Nothing is worse that the useless feeling this down puts on you.

[alexanderofny]

Were you able to collect any information?

[worstvikingever]

Meaninglessness. All that death, everything that happened... for nothing? It's the worst thing that could possibly happen.

[Angry? Bitter? YOU BET.]

[alexanderofny]

[Veidt doesn't look at him as he responds.]

I suppose that it's difficult to argue that Mayfield is a self-inflicted hell.

[worstvikingever]

I wouldn't call it self-inflicted, Mr. Veidt.

But even apart from Mayfield, the idea that everything you do doesn't mean anything ever is... [Something he's had to deal with most of his life] terrible.

[alexanderofny]

If it changes anything, Mr. Haddock...

I fully disavow the notion of the "average person". I personally do believe that we are each of great worth.

[The nasty inverse of this is that this also makes everyone equally disposable, but, well, he's not going to mention that now.]

[chaoschildofgod]

There is no such thing as a world where one's actions have no effect.

[alexanderofny]

A predetermined universe would, by definition, be meaningless.

[chaoschildofgod]

I never said anything about a pre-meditated universe. Everything a person does can affect the course of the flow. Even here, although it may seem lessened, it is not like those who exist within it do not have an effect.

[alexanderofny]

This was a hypothetical exercise-