text; un: sai

[daimeinashi]

[Sai hasn't entirely worked out how to use this whole magic jewelry network thing yet, but the thought-typing is relatively straightforward enough. So:]

is it truly wise to be rescuing the qorral ?
should a significant number of them perish, it will be far easier to complete our secondary mission of stopping the mining efforts

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[sheriffing]

Then what is your responsibility here?

[daimeinashi]

to follow ALISTAIR's orders
to fulfill our mission

[sheriffing]

And you don't feel like any of that involves protecting the innnocent?

[daimeinashi]

please explain
what do you mean by 'innocent'?

[Because people keep saying that word, and it's completely meaningless to him.]

[sheriffing]

You don't know?

[She's a little less pissed by the suggestion if he legitimately doesn't understand this.]

[daimeinashi]

no

[He's never been anything more or less than a weapon, until very recently. If Danzou had his way about it, Sai wouldn't even be having this conversation.]

[sheriffing]

I mean they're suffering through something they aren't prepared for and can't handle on their own.

[That these people are in need of help they can't get elsewhere.]

If you were in over your head, wouldn't you want help?

[daimeinashi]

i would not consider anyone obligated to provide me assistance, particularly if we held no preexisting connection such as alliance or friendship

[sheriffing]

Yeah, but that wasn't the question.
If you needed that assistance, wouldn't you want it?

[daimeinashi]

i do not know how to answer that

[It's too abstract for him, the notion of valuing even his own life in the traditional sense. If he were actively in danger of death, he might feel fear, but he can't imagine that fear in the absence of it. And the notion of "wanting" things is still very new, something he still has a hard time applying to himself.]

whether or not i requested assistance would depend on the circumstances involved, i suppose

[sheriffing]

The circumstances here are that we can help them, so we should. Because that's how people should treat each other.
I don't value our mission more than anyone's life.

[daimeinashi]

what about your own? your teammates'?
do you value those less than the qorral's lives?