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[decideformyself]

To those of you who participated in the Milgram Experiment yesterday in the role of the questioner, I have two questions of my own. Did you choose to shock your partner for any incorrect responses they may have given? And why or why not?


[ Filtered to Yui Kiriyama, not anonymous ]

How are you feeling?

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[Anon forevs]

[decideformyself]

[ The last person he wanted to hear from. He already knew Shotaro's answer. ]

If you were not a detective, would your answer have been different?

Re: [Anon forevs]

[tanteiotaku]

Not at all. Even if they'd like me to be a monster, I'm still human.

[decideformyself]

What a naive viewpoint. Humans hurt one another. Humans kill one another. That's why most of us are here.

[tanteiotaku]

I have my own sins I need to count up. That experiment is just causing pain for the sake of it. And not everyone here is guilty of the crimes they've been arrested for.

[decideformyself]

Is it your view, then, that to be deemed "human" a person must be willing to suffer pain to the point of death to save another? [ He's pretty sure that that is Shotaro's view. He just wants to make sure. ]

[tanteiotaku]

Being human is not causing that kind of pain to someone else just because you can. That it ended in me dying was just because of how it was all set up.

[decideformyself]

[ "Empathy" again. What a strange concept. ]

I see.

[tanteiotaku]

I can understand if someone got scared. This is a scary place. But a hard-boiled detective can't let his decision be clouded by fear.

[decideformyself]

A hard-boiled detective makes his decisions through logic and practicality, correct? In which case you don't sound very hard-boiled at all. Your rationalization comes across as, to continue the metaphor, undercooked.

To put it in other words... "half-boiled".

[tanteiotaku]

Dammit, Philip, where the hell are you?

[decideformyself]

[ oops ]

Who's Philip?

[tanteiotaku]

Don't give me that shit. There's no one else that talks like you!

[decideformyself]

You've mistaken me for somebody else.

[ Deliberately swapping his boku out for watashi now, but... otherwise speaking exactly the same. Yes very believable. ]

[tanteiotaku]

Don't bullshit me. Where the hell are you?

[private, non-anonymous]

[decideformyself]

Why do you ask?

Re: [private, non-anonymous]

[tanteiotaku]

You'll find out when I see you.

Re: [private, non-anonymous]

[decideformyself]

[ Sigh. ]

I am in the common room. [ Significantly public enough that he can probably avoid another punch, he figures. ]

Re: [private, non-anonymous]

[tanteiotaku]

[Keep dreaming.]

I'm on my way.

Re: [private, non-anonymous]

[decideformyself]

[ Whatever.

He goes back to the book he's reading -- A History of Videotape -- and decides to wait. ]

[Action]

[tanteiotaku]

Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? [Shouting on his way across the room.]

[Action]

[decideformyself]

[ Philip just rolls his eyes. He doesn't respond, or even look up. ]

Re: [Action]

[tanteiotaku]

[Hobbles his way over to him. Grabs him by the shirt and tugs him up out of the chair.] Just what do you think you're doing?!

Re: [Action]

[decideformyself]

[ He shoves Shotaro away. ]

What does it look like I'm doing, Shotaro?

Re: [Action]

[tanteiotaku]

[Grabs hold of him.] First? You called me half-boiled. Second? You insulted me by doing a piss-poor job of covering yourself after I called you out. That's two insults against not only me, but the Boss too.

Re: [Action]

[decideformyself]

[ He doesn't bother to push away this time. If Shotaro keeps coming at him he'll probably wind up falling flat on his face at some point. ]

Sokichi Narumi has nothing to do with this.