[written] Rorschach's Journal: April 27, 2010?

[no_gray]

[Rorschach's not affected by the experiment that's been making people's thoughts audible or visible, for the sake of everyone else's sanity.  Also, the change in the date is due to him having discovered a calendar since his arrival.]

I have been informed that the journal is a communication device, but I will write most of my logs in here regardless

Comments

[goldenpathredux]

Law? You speak of law here? Oh you are a funny man, clinging to a construct that is no longer relevant. We have law in its most obvious form here: the Malnosso and their naked violence.

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[no_gray]

The Malnosso do not punish the criminals; they do not protect the innocents. They target everyone, punish everyone. That is not law; it is tyranny.

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[goldenpathredux]

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: “I feed on your energy.”

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[no_gray]

You seem to be an anarchist, at the very least. Someone to watch out for

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[ahappylie]

They won't harm the populace here - not without provocation.

Also the Blues are trying to kill them as well. They're involved in a war.

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[no_gray]

That may be, but I refuse to back down. They are murderers by nature, hired killers whose only concern is their next paycheck, and they will be brought to justice. If this "Blue" group is similar, they will meet the same fate.

Who else is in those groups, aside from the three that I mentioned?

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[ahappylie]

Murdering them when they have no reason to kill here is a poor idea. It will only bring misery upon everyone.

And I cannot tell you. I'm afraid I cannot condone your actions.

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[no_gray]

You are similar to the members of the public back home in that regard. Too lazy to help others, content to sit back and watch as people die, but when someone tries to put a stop to the deaths, whether they are ongoing or in the planning stages, you condemn that person.

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[38thdefender]

Are you the one who attacked Spy?

[Written]

[no_gray]

Yes. He was plotting murder; I could not let him get away with it. Criminals must be punished.

[Written]

[38thdefender]

Who was he planning to murder? And how did you find out?

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[no_gray]

He mentioned that, if any members of a group of mercenaries that call themselves "Blue" arrived, he wanted to know so that he could kill them as soon as possible. He was speaking into his journal, though I did not know this at the time and was under the impression that he was talking out loud to himself. I overheard all of this and decided to intervene.

[justicereigns]

I take it then that you did some sort of police or detective back in your world?

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[no_gray]

In a sense. I mainly did detective work, though the police did not trust me or any of my comrades. They tried to have us removed from society, to leave the protection of the public in their incompetent and greedy hands, but I alone persisted and continued punishing the criminal scum.

[Written][Thoughts in blue]

[justicereigns]

Vigilantes then. [But when an entire organization is too corrupt to do the job, it makes sense.] Who's Veidt?

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[no_gray]

Yes. The government is easily corrupted, with the people who make, interpret, and enforce the law being bribed and manipulated by the wealthier criminals.

Veidt was a costumed hero from my world. People called him "the world's smartest man", and he was a fearsome fighter as well. He went soft, exposed his identity, and began exploiting his fame to sell cheap toys and make money off of his image that he built up as a crimefighter.

At first, that's all I thought he was, but I discovered a conspiracy by him to kill millions of innocent people, while I was working with my old partner. Veidt claimed that his actions were necessary to end the Cold War, but he himself accelerated it by sending our biggest nuclear deterrent into exile. I tried to expose it, but I was sent here before I could.

[unseenspy]

So you're one of those people. Good luck with that. I sincerely doubt your punishing these criminals will change anything.

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[no_gray]

Making criminals suffer sends out a warning to anyone planning on committing any criminal activities - if they carry them out, then I will find them and make them pay.

[Written]

[unseenspy]

That may be. But it's not like these criminals care about the suffering of others, criminal or otherwise.

[Written]

[no_gray]

It will force them to realize that there are consequences to their actions; either they learn what will happen to them by example and cease any illegal activities, or they pay for their sins.