03-14-2015, 02:43 PM
In fact, I think that what happened in the park is a little microcosm of the big picture. Who deserves to take the risk? We know for a fact that this supernatural human trafficking ring is going on IF NOT IN DENVER. Okay, I get that. It's going on in Miami and Santa Fe. Do we just care about the people in Denver? Okay, let's go with that.
We only care about the people in Denver. The Denver vampires are being cautious. The Black Orchid is a new endeavor here, and they're just not shipping people off to Mexico. So who cares? But you have to ask the question: if all of those other clubs under the same head organization are doing these horrible things, why did they set up in Denver? What's the ultimate purpose behind that? That's what I keep trying to figure out. Everybody else? They're telling me: "Oh, they're not running a trafficking ring through Denver, we should just leave it."
That's the saying of someone who only cares about the people of Denver. The trouble with that sentiment should be pretty obvious, though, even if you only care about what's going on in your back yard. Lillean Holdings has money. They don't need to be running a club in Denver to get more. They use language like they're a cult, and they run a very hierarchical, top-down organization. I could put together a leadership tree for you, and orders do flow. It's not like the Black Orchid is some separate entity. It has a purpose for being here. They wouldn't have set it up in the exact same configuration as in other areas of the country if it didn't.
So, if we only care about the people of Denver? That's still not enough apathy.
The next question we have to ask ourselves is: Do we only care about ourselves and our friends, then? Which, by the way, is obviously not an easy question to answer. If all we care about is saving our own skins versus a very powerful, nebulous enemy? Then we obviously turn around and pretend we never saw this going on. And I'm not even going to lie -- this might be the best, most moral option to take. We could be wiped out from the city. And then, who will be there the next time something like Thakky knocks on the door? Who will be jumping into another universe to keep it from eating this one? We are not normal people, and we have a duty to the rest of the world to safeguard ourselves, and not be suicidal just because it's fun.
Do we, as Mages, have to overlook the little evils on the path? Do we only stop to destroy the things that will destroy us? Do we let the Sleepers take the fall for things we could prevent, if doing so would keep us from acting against larger threats?
I think the reason why we can't seem to make up our minds is that those questions are so fucking hard to answer.
We only care about the people in Denver. The Denver vampires are being cautious. The Black Orchid is a new endeavor here, and they're just not shipping people off to Mexico. So who cares? But you have to ask the question: if all of those other clubs under the same head organization are doing these horrible things, why did they set up in Denver? What's the ultimate purpose behind that? That's what I keep trying to figure out. Everybody else? They're telling me: "Oh, they're not running a trafficking ring through Denver, we should just leave it."
That's the saying of someone who only cares about the people of Denver. The trouble with that sentiment should be pretty obvious, though, even if you only care about what's going on in your back yard. Lillean Holdings has money. They don't need to be running a club in Denver to get more. They use language like they're a cult, and they run a very hierarchical, top-down organization. I could put together a leadership tree for you, and orders do flow. It's not like the Black Orchid is some separate entity. It has a purpose for being here. They wouldn't have set it up in the exact same configuration as in other areas of the country if it didn't.
So, if we only care about the people of Denver? That's still not enough apathy.
The next question we have to ask ourselves is: Do we only care about ourselves and our friends, then? Which, by the way, is obviously not an easy question to answer. If all we care about is saving our own skins versus a very powerful, nebulous enemy? Then we obviously turn around and pretend we never saw this going on. And I'm not even going to lie -- this might be the best, most moral option to take. We could be wiped out from the city. And then, who will be there the next time something like Thakky knocks on the door? Who will be jumping into another universe to keep it from eating this one? We are not normal people, and we have a duty to the rest of the world to safeguard ourselves, and not be suicidal just because it's fun.
Do we, as Mages, have to overlook the little evils on the path? Do we only stop to destroy the things that will destroy us? Do we let the Sleepers take the fall for things we could prevent, if doing so would keep us from acting against larger threats?
I think the reason why we can't seem to make up our minds is that those questions are so fucking hard to answer.