text post; un: peerless_cucumber

[xiaoxiuya]

It seems that several of us have already located the keys to "our" personal safety deposit boxes, and found items of a very personal nature contained therein. Likewise many of you may also have discovered that these objects carry a curse most peculiar, which compels the person who recognizes them to speak of the circumstances surrounding these objects which weigh most heavily on their memory.

This one would like to take this time to remind everyone that we exist now in a new world, subject to no laws but those we make ourselves. It strikes this one as nonsensical to persecute each other for things we may or may not have done elsewhere, especially when those with shameful memories may struggle to convey the full context which lay behind their remembered actions. This is said not to justify or apologize for the crimes some of us may have committed in another world, but simply to promote harmony in this one. We have no allies here but each other; shall we allow our mysterious captors to turn us against each other so easily?

[no shen yuan doesn't have a guilty conscious shut the fuck up]

Comments

[lockingout]

You're a pretty patient type, huh?

Let's say it's someone who's done something you cannot forgive and they don't regret it. Might even do it here.

Personally, I'd love to see them incarcerated or even dead depending on the severity of the crime, but... Do we even have a way of achieving as much? Killing punishes the killer as well and doesn't hold. Imprisoning someone would likely be punished as kidnapping or something.

Meaningfully turning onto each other is gonna be pretty difficult even if we tried.

[xiaoxiuya]

I simply prefer to treat others how I would wish to be treated, and extend them the same courtesies that I would like to receive in turn.

As a point of clarification though, I'm not talking about forgiveness. Honestly, unless someone I specifically had harmed, or who had caused harm to me, were to arrive here, then I don't see what forgiveness has to do with this issue at all. I'm not talking about forgiveness, or even restitution. I'm talking about tolerance and harmony, about doing our best to maintain a peaceful society for mutual benefit.

You think we can't meaningfully turn on each other here, but I disagree. Injuries still hurt, after all, and psychological wounds are known to linger far longer than the physical. It is not impossible that to a certain kind person, certain crimes may warrant a response that involves deliberately inflicting pain, without a care for the punishments our captors impose. Not to mention that another alternative, open brawling in the street, would disrupt the movements of our fellow prisoners. It is exactly these kinds of anti-social behaviors that I think we should all avoid mostly strongly; hence my original warning.