"I don't blame whoever did it to set the record straight--if that was truly their intention--but they shouldn't have tried to hurt innocent people to get their point across." Unless it was unintentional, but without talking to the programmer, they'd never know. "But as for the caricature... it pisses me off to say it, but it's entirely possible whoever created the simulation didn't know."
Part of him doesn't want him to be right--it would be so much easier to actually have someone in front of him to blame. But things were never that simple, were they? "Have you ever seen a game of telephone in action? You tell someone you ate an apple pie or something and somehow someone comes up to you the following week and asks how you managed to chop down all those pineapple trees without getting caught, and you have no idea what the hell they're talking about?"
Okay, maybe not his best metaphor, but he wasn't one for metaphors.
"The programmers might have only heard the propaganda version--it's been over 30 years."
But that only excuses them so much if he was correct. That still left the lion's share of the blame to fall on every single person that chose to hide the truth. And if the programmers did know--then that just meant more blame for them than originally thought.
"But one thing is for certain--whispers of the truth are going to come out now. What happened here was too public. But--"
And it was a huge one.
"--the people that hushed it up the first time are just as inspired to do it again this time. I think we all need to make sure they can't do that."
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"I don't blame whoever did it to set the record straight--if that was truly their intention--but they shouldn't have tried to hurt innocent people to get their point across." Unless it was unintentional, but without talking to the programmer, they'd never know. "But as for the caricature... it pisses me off to say it, but it's entirely possible whoever created the simulation didn't know."
Part of him doesn't want him to be right--it would be so much easier to actually have someone in front of him to blame. But things were never that simple, were they? "Have you ever seen a game of telephone in action? You tell someone you ate an apple pie or something and somehow someone comes up to you the following week and asks how you managed to chop down all those pineapple trees without getting caught, and you have no idea what the hell they're talking about?"
Okay, maybe not his best metaphor, but he wasn't one for metaphors.
"The programmers might have only heard the propaganda version--it's been over 30 years."
But that only excuses them so much if he was correct. That still left the lion's share of the blame to fall on every single person that chose to hide the truth. And if the programmers did know--then that just meant more blame for them than originally thought.
"But one thing is for certain--whispers of the truth are going to come out now. What happened here was too public. But--"
And it was a huge one.
"--the people that hushed it up the first time are just as inspired to do it again this time. I think we all need to make sure they can't do that."