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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Case:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2017, 12:39 ---In the criminal mind, or those minds for whom typical ideas of ethics are curious alien cultural artefacts, they are essentially indistinguishable.
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Uhmmmmhnope? Blackmail requires the blackmailer to take action/do work, voluntary assistance doesn't?
Pretty sure that whoever you have in mind wouldn't fail to notice the difference.
CrowFairy:
My head feels fuzzy today, so I'm not entirely up-to-date on the thread. I saw a conversation about the color of the agent's eyes and how we would classify them.
I finally came up with "mulberry" and looked it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_(color)
If you do the drop-downs toward the bottom of the page, you can see other colors in the same range.
The color that was linked earlier: http://www.color-hex.com/color/961851
It looks most like red-violet (distinct from red violet), amaranth purple, magenta dye, and telemagenta. I'm personally leaning toward telemagenta.
Also, has anyone suggested that they merely scan Bubbles? Surely Station has the tech to scan without triggering any sensitive systems.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Case on 11 Jan 2017, 12:51 ---Pretty sure that whoever you have in mind wouldn't fail to notice the difference.
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They're welcome to; the criminal just doesn't have to care about that.
"Did you hear us demand something in exchange for not doing this? No! we're just, as a professional courtesy, letting you know that we're tossing Azuma to the wolves; she's far too dangerous to leave in circulation. Now, on a completely different subject, there's the guy in town that we really, really don't like..."
"Are you asking me to kill someone for you in exchange for you not destroying that young woman's life?"
"We don't know... Why, is that the offer that you're making to us?"
Case:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2017, 13:10 ---"we're just, as a professional courtesy, letting you know that we're tossing Azuma to the wolves"
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Even in that further narrowed example you present here (you've already implicitly given up the claim to generality that your previous post implies): That's two actions already - communicating the threat to the victim (exposing yourself - which necessitates further measures from you in order to safeguard yourself against repercussions arising from the target seeking help, e.g. from the police, or seeking vengeance), and setting up the threat (in this case, creating a situation that is threatening the well-being of Emily) that is intended to spur the target into doing smth. they would not normally do. Not to mention the work implied in finding out precisely what action would be likely to make the target pliable.
Voluntary help, otoh, would only require you to communicate your need.
Again, no matter their psychological abnormalities, the criminals you have in mind would not fail to notice the difference between "Intense, risky work and preparation were necessary to create a situation that made them perform an action beneficiary to me" and "I just needed to tell them what I needed".
BenRG:
I still don't get why you're over-analysing it. You seem to think that someone would care about the difference.
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