[Mafia] Your Final Frontier: Go 4th and perish!

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

I'm not paying any of these homicidal judges any mind. Dealt with plenty of 'em, and I'm not about to fold to these people. It will take more than that to put me in place.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Bright just rolls his eyes...

Perhaps it was a mistake to assume that alien civilizations would have developed the same morality system as us... With different initial conditions, environments, and evolutionary stresses from those of Earth's, it's only a given that intelligent species that arise from these develop different social and moral structures than our own... In fact, who's to say they even have concepts like "good" and "evil" in the first place... They're just made-up words to them.

Pfft. As if. We all know this whole thing is just to spite us. Actually... It's both of those! Perhaps "evil" is just routine in the Alliance... Wouldn't be the first time a political/military group ran like that... and it probably won't be the last.

So do and say whatever you like. It won't faze me... and probably not the others, either.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"See, your issue is assuming I'm becoming violent."

[Dookie]

"... anyway hi there Bart my name's Hallie. Why the hell is plant dictator person imprisoning a third-grader?"

“Either indecent exposure, harassment over telephone, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, arson, underage drinking, animal abuse, vandalism, destruction of public property, disturbing public peace, working for the mafia, defacing national monuments, psychological torment, fraud, forgery, attempted treason, tax evasion, peeping, or grand theft auto.”

[Florien]

Well... actually it turnss out that if you consstrain for "empire builderss", you get pretty conssisstent morality ssysstemss. Nothing too divergent. Like at worsst you'll get a few ritual ssacrificess on one end and a group of osstenssible pacifisstss on the other, and one ssociety with honor killingss and one without them. And consstraining for empire builderss iss really what you're doing when you assk thesse quesstionss about governmentss.

Which you're doing. Anyway, floran doessn't do thiss entirely out of ssome "thiss iss the right thing", though it iss compared to the corporationss around the corner, right? Iss one of thosse... you know, "dodge a conviction for a totally fucking jusstified murder that was PROBABLY A SSERVICE TO THE UNIVERSSE." thingss. Floran can't be extradited becausse floran iss in thiss country that floran founded.

Alsso like, floran'ss pretty good at thiss whole thing. Iss great really. Floran turned dissunited coloniess with a population of a few hundred getting extorted by piratess into united coloniess with populationss of sseveral thoussand producing ressourcess. Okay, fair, sstandard of living has not rissen much, but there'ss sso much more living going on that it balancess out really. And like, virtually none of our neighborss have great SoL either.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"...Okay, while I've got to admit that's impressive, the little boy probably kinda does deserve to be in this jail, now I'm hearing that."

[PointMaid]

...No wonder my original owners couldn't afford to keep me.

[PointMaid]

(That was in response to Floran's diatribe)

[Caret]

Bow is meanwhile ranting about the power of words.

"People are so gullible. Just say something vaguely philosophical and people will believe you just like that. In that, people will always listen to you as long as you sound somewhat coherent. That's how I survive. Just think of a topic that doesn't involve your personal life, and bam! You'll have a nice conversation, and maybe you'll learn something new. Did you know I love and hate talking to people at the same time? Mostly the latter, but conversations have their benefits. I just realized. I'm a walking, talking paradox! Paradoxical me! Heh... heh... oops, I was just talking to myself. "

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Also, as someone who works for one of those corps, I feel they treat me better than this shit." Bit rolled their eyes at the plant dictator.

[Florien]

Yeah, ssame with our actual people not in our bad bookss. Like, our captainss get all kindss of fun opportunitiesss, hell, even our civviess don't get much bad going for them.

You however, are in the Alliance'ss bad bookss, sso yeah, you're going to be treated bad. Iss the sstraight line of causse and effect.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Bright turns to Bart...

I like your style. But also... Huh. Never knew a third grader could do that type of stuff. Though then again... considering everything in this wacky world of yours, I guess I should have seen it coming sooner or later.

[Kennifer]

"And I am guessing the bad books are easier to get into than the good ones."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Armed robbery, manslaughter and escaping from prison is just Earth stuff. I don't know what it is to you Alliance freaks over the stuff I did.

[Dookie]

Armed robbery, manslaughter and escaping from prison is just Earth stuff. I don't know what it is to you Alliance freaks over the stuff I did.

“…Well at least I admit I deserve it.”

[Kennifer]

"I'm still not even 100% on what I did, but it was likely closer to a misdemeanor than a felony. Public intoxication or something maybe? Wrap parties for shows can get pretty wild."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Personally, the only thing I truly have an issue out of that rap sheet is the escaping from prison thing, but even then it's not too bad. Gives me more work if any of my higher ups care about it."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Kid, what are you saying? I'm not saying I don't deserve my punishment. When I was sentenced, I pleaded guilty to the armed robbery. I'll take the charge of manslaughter, but not the premeditated murder charge I was hit with. What I'm saying is all my shit went down on Earth. What business is it of the Alliance's?

[wingedcatgirl]

"I mean, I dispute that I deserve to be tortured in a killing game, but I did definitely commit a few arsons. And possibly a chainsaw manslaughter. Depending mostly on whether the person got better afterward. Wasn't exactly checking up with the hospital, y'know?"

[Caret]

"Like I said numerous times before, I did absolutely nothing wrong by my world's standards. OK, "absolutely nothing" may be a slight exaggeration, but that doesn't matter right now. Your standards must be étrange if you think kidnapping a bunch of random people for entertainment is not more illegal than disobeying a sign telling you not to feed the Bird-types."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Look, the reason why I escaped from prison is because I felt like I did my time. Yes, I was desperate for money and yes, I deserved to be locked away from the armed robbery. But do I really deserve life for killing someone by accident. I didn't mean for it to happen. The gun just went off. And I chose to stay in prison for ten years. After that, it was enough for me. But of course the judges and the jury don't see it that way; would just rather make me out to be some psychopath. Tell me how fair that is?

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Look, I'm not judging. Too hard. And personally, I don't feel I've done anything wrong. I just did my job. Now, sure, do some people think bounty hunting is "morally wrong"? Yeah, probably. Do some people think that "taking down corporate threats for pay" is also considered morally wrong? Maybe, I dunno, but I don't think a cabbage should be the judge of that."

[Kennifer]

"I mean some people probably think musical theater is a crime against nature or something."

Inez chuckles.

[Cutegirl920fire]

"Oooh, Bart! I have a gut feeling you're passionate for pranks too!" 

[PointMaid]

...My bosses.

...I have a feeling my bosses don't like me, with this assignment. Sure I was given a safe word, but I still could've been killed. All I was looking to do was not starve on the street. Again. Understand?