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WCT February 9-13
bunnyThor:
--- Quote from: fallax on 12 Feb 2009, 04:27 ---I don't mean that it isn't her business /knowing/. Sven volunteered the information. I mean that it isn't her business to go running off to Faye and telling her. Sven and Faye are adults and it's their "relationship". Lydia isn't even all that close to Faye. It's not her decision unless Faye asks her.
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If you force me to take something, it *is* my business what I do with it subsequently. This includes information.
Lydia is his intern, not his secret-keeper or father confessor. She has been thrust unwillingly into an uncomfortable position, and it is completely within her rights to do whatever it takes to resolve her sudden burden. If that means she posts the information on the internet or if that means that she clams up and pretends that she heard nothing, that's her business.
If she had been drawn into his confidence, or signed a non-disclosure agreement, or had promised to keep a secret beforehand, that's a different matter. But instead Sven just dumped a hot potato in her lap with no warning, instruction, or consideration. Anything she feels she has to do to keep from being burned is legitimate.
jeph:
--- Quote from: Twelvth on 12 Feb 2009, 11:51 ---I have to disagree on the whole "it's not lydia's place to tell" argument. Because that is BULLCRAP.
You can say all you want about letting people make their own mistakes and choices, and that's all well and good. But people can hardly make ANY choices if they don't have any information leading up to the fact that there's a choice to make.
Granted, she's not under any obligation to tell, she doesn't know Faye all that well or anything. But she knows enough to tell that Faye wouldn't appreciate it, and there is nothing, NOTHING wrong with her letting her know what happened. Maybe if she'd just seen him around ambiguously with another girl or something I could see reason for her to morally butt out, it being not her business and there being plenty of room for misunderstanding. But he blatantly TOLD her what went down. She's well within her rights to tell any other involved party as she feels morally inclined to.
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This.
--- Quote from: bunnyThor on 12 Feb 2009, 13:25 ---
--- Quote from: fallax on 12 Feb 2009, 04:27 ---I don't mean that it isn't her business /knowing/. Sven volunteered the information. I mean that it isn't her business to go running off to Faye and telling her. Sven and Faye are adults and it's their "relationship". Lydia isn't even all that close to Faye. It's not her decision unless Faye asks her.
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If you force me to take something, it *is* my business what I do with it subsequently. This includes information.
Lydia is his intern, not his secret-keeper or father confessor. She has been thrust unwillingly into an uncomfortable position, and it is completely within her rights to do whatever it takes to resolve her sudden burden. If that means she posts the information on the internet or if that means that she clams up and pretends that she heard nothing, that's her business.
If she had been drawn into his confidence, or signed a non-disclosure agreement, or had promised to keep a secret beforehand, that's a different matter. But instead Sven just dumped a hot potato in her lap with no warning, instruction, or consideration. Anything she feels she has to do to keep from being burned is legitimate.
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Also this.
I've been in Lydia's situation before and it is incredibly shitty. If you say something, you risk ruining somebody else's relationship. But if you DON'T say something, it poisons your relationship with those same people.
I'd rather err on the side of honesty, and have in the past.
graydon:
--- Quote from: Blackcat Moebius on 11 Feb 2009, 19:59 ---I'm sort of expecting her to curl up into a ball of I-should-have-known-this-would-happen based self-loathing.
Meanwhile, Dora will go fratricidal.
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Faye almost has to have thought about what she'd say if Sven sleeps with someone else. If she doesn't go non-linear at the news, Sven is likely to get something planned, rather than an extemporized response.
I'm expecting something more like "So, was she worth never sleeping with me again?" than either self-loathing or violence, at least while Sven is actually there.
What happens after, well, maybe we'll see Dr. Corrine again. Maybe Dora will get her wish. Maybe Faye will next be seen with a wood chipper and a shifty expression.
ironi:
Notice Sven didn't jump up with a cry of, "Oh no, please don't!" when Lydia threatened to tell. If he just accidentally let it slip that he slept with Gina and doesn't want Faye to know, I think that would be more along the lines of his response. Instead he seems resigned to his fate. I doubt Lydia will tell Faye, this sounds like an empty threat to me, then again we don't know her character that well. Of course it is Lydia's "right" to tell, she is a free person. That being said, I am of the opinion that the PROFESSIONAL thing for her to do would be to quit and walk away from the situation.
Border Reiver:
and if she should happen to end up in CoD and Faye strikes up a conversation?
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