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THREE ✖ VOICE
Although I still don't understand or particularly appreciate - [Understatement of the year and it's evident by his tone of voice that he's still angry about it.] - the Admiral deciding those of us who aren't human to not know hot to act like responsible adults in port, I did appreciate the support from both those who understood from experience and those who simply empathized.
With a few exceptions. [Pink. :V]
I understand it's can be a difficult thing for someone who doesn't abilities of their own to first accept that other people are capable of doing things like reading minds or manipulating matter without physically touching it, and thus it's difficult to imagine what it must be like to not be able to do that, but it truly is like waking up one morning and discovering you've gone deaf. Or blind. And being told it's happened because you're different and this is a way of "fitting in" is demeaning. Just because our genetic coding or biology is slightly different doesn't mean we should be made to change, or to be treated differently.
I've seen this way of thinking come from a place of fear, because "different" often means "unknown", and generally, people are taught - knowingly or not - to fear things they don't understand. But I can promise you, reacting with fear, suspicion and hostility without first coming to understand others will only give those who are different, and who fear persecution because of it evidence that they are right in striking back just as viciously.
Fear and uncertainty, leaping to conclusions and persecuting those different from you is not the solution to anything, and in a place such as this, based around the idea of redemption and second chances, I'd like to hope people understand this, or come to, if they do not already.
[Private to Merlin]
How have you been holding up? I'd meant to check in with you while we were in port.
[Private to Arthur, after Merlin poofs]
Merlin's vanished. I thought you should be the first to know.
With a few exceptions. [Pink. :V]
I understand it's can be a difficult thing for someone who doesn't abilities of their own to first accept that other people are capable of doing things like reading minds or manipulating matter without physically touching it, and thus it's difficult to imagine what it must be like to not be able to do that, but it truly is like waking up one morning and discovering you've gone deaf. Or blind. And being told it's happened because you're different and this is a way of "fitting in" is demeaning. Just because our genetic coding or biology is slightly different doesn't mean we should be made to change, or to be treated differently.
I've seen this way of thinking come from a place of fear, because "different" often means "unknown", and generally, people are taught - knowingly or not - to fear things they don't understand. But I can promise you, reacting with fear, suspicion and hostility without first coming to understand others will only give those who are different, and who fear persecution because of it evidence that they are right in striking back just as viciously.
Fear and uncertainty, leaping to conclusions and persecuting those different from you is not the solution to anything, and in a place such as this, based around the idea of redemption and second chances, I'd like to hope people understand this, or come to, if they do not already.
[Private to Merlin]
How have you been holding up? I'd meant to check in with you while we were in port.
[Private to Arthur, after Merlin poofs]
Merlin's vanished. I thought you should be the first to know.