Good, he has a preference, and a reason for it. Perfect! Mark offers a smile in response.
“Because weapons are things, Huvrye, and things don’t have preferences, or likes and dislikes. A gun doesn’t like armor piercing rounds over standard. A tank doesn’t have a reason to prefer dry ground over muddy, even if one is better for its operation. There are no preferences with a sword when it comes to whether their handle is wrapped in one color leather or another. People have preferences.”
He’s going to put aside the whole idea of animals here because those have preferences too but he’s not going to muddy that water. Right now he needs Huvrye to see that he’s a thinking, reasoning being. And that makes him a person.
“You were a soldier for your world, and it sounds like you weren’t given a choice in that life. But that doesn’t mean that you are without your own ability to make choices. Sometimes people get caught like that. I got caught in that, I had my agency stripped away for years, but that didn’t make me less of a person, and that doesn’t mean I lost my right to make my own choices now. And right now, you’re free of whatever fucked up structures you were in, and you get to make your own choices, no matter what your past was.”
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“Because weapons are things, Huvrye, and things don’t have preferences, or likes and dislikes. A gun doesn’t like armor piercing rounds over standard. A tank doesn’t have a reason to prefer dry ground over muddy, even if one is better for its operation. There are no preferences with a sword when it comes to whether their handle is wrapped in one color leather or another. People have preferences.”
He’s going to put aside the whole idea of animals here because those have preferences too but he’s not going to muddy that water. Right now he needs Huvrye to see that he’s a thinking, reasoning being. And that makes him a person.
“You were a soldier for your world, and it sounds like you weren’t given a choice in that life. But that doesn’t mean that you are without your own ability to make choices. Sometimes people get caught like that. I got caught in that, I had my agency stripped away for years, but that didn’t make me less of a person, and that doesn’t mean I lost my right to make my own choices now. And right now, you’re free of whatever fucked up structures you were in, and you get to make your own choices, no matter what your past was.”