I try to be. Which is a bizarre mental balancing act when you work with alien technology sometimes, being open to the idea of things that laugh in the face of everything you know while trying to work within the boundaries of the practical. Also, on a more mundane note, I've seen people stumbling over alien names enough to see how awkward that is in conversation. If I had a choice, I'd avoid the problem as much as possible.
If it were me? I'd probably do a press conference of some kind showing the Stargate opening. It proves what we can do, where we've been, but it's also...beautiful. Even the time I saw it when we thought we were possibly under attack, it was incredible. It's...indescriable, even having seen it.
Well, I'd like to say I'm just naturally selfless, but I know that's hardly the case. We all come to situations with our own biases, and losing the ability to brush your own hair when you're still a child gives you some unique ones. I know other people in my situation didn't live half as long as I did because other people thought their lives didn't have value. I can't think of the people who've died because of everything we've done with the Stargates as simply the cost of learning. They were people, not tools. Some couldn't be avoided, but I can't let myself believe that's okay. That slope's far more slippery than I'm comfortable with. Which, among a great many reasons, is why I work with the military and am not actually a member of their ranks.
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If it were me? I'd probably do a press conference of some kind showing the Stargate opening. It proves what we can do, where we've been, but it's also...beautiful. Even the time I saw it when we thought we were possibly under attack, it was incredible. It's...indescriable, even having seen it.
Well, I'd like to say I'm just naturally selfless, but I know that's hardly the case. We all come to situations with our own biases, and losing the ability to brush your own hair when you're still a child gives you some unique ones. I know other people in my situation didn't live half as long as I did because other people thought their lives didn't have value. I can't think of the people who've died because of everything we've done with the Stargates as simply the cost of learning. They were people, not tools. Some couldn't be avoided, but I can't let myself believe that's okay. That slope's far more slippery than I'm comfortable with. Which, among a great many reasons, is why I work with the military and am not actually a member of their ranks.