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[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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[Is this extreme pragmatism, or poor humor? Haise can only wonder...]

We're not here to cause undue harm, either by inaction or otherwise. Allowing people to die could have a much more widespread effect than you seem to be accounting for... Even on the most basic level, there's how willing they would be to work with us.

Not to mention, it speaks to the sort of people we want to be. I don't want to be so cold that I consider someone's life a matter of convenience.

[congrats you've angered the shonen anime, you shonen anime]

We are NOT letting innocent people die.

[Extreme pragmatism is this shithead's M.O., sorry Sasaki.]

this is a situation of their own making
why should they be owed our assistance? it would have occurred whether we were here or not
there is nothing undue about that
their cooperation is not particularly at issue either
currently, we are paying for our own living expenses
further, the qorral are merely incidental to ALISTAIR's current mission
should they cease to conduct business with us, it may prove harmful to them in the long run

[Because honestly, he doesn't think ALISTAIR is above wiping out the whole settlement.

That last part, though. He keeps hearing things like this, appeals for these people's lives that they do not even know. It reminds him of when Naruto and Sakura were so angry about that false story he fed them about teaming up with Orochimaru to rebuild Konoha in Danzou's image. But at least that was their village, with the people they shared "bonds" with. This, he doesn't understand.]

why do their lives matter to you? you are not of their world
they are not your friends

they created this situation for themselves
we hold no obligation to them

they're still innocent people. they don't deserve to die for this.

please explain
why are their deaths our concern?

Shit, I'm sure everyone's going to hop right onto that idea in a jiffy.

Yeah, sure. We could let 'em all die. If we wanted to be heartless assholes about it.

Under that logic, what reason do any of us have to help one another? Most of us come from different worlds and didn't know each other at all before our arrival. We were placed on a team, but that doesn't equate allegiance.

That doesn't change the fact that each of us is unique, and so are our lives. So are these peoples' lives. The existence of an individual can't be replaced, and so none are so casually expendable.

Allowing people to die in the name of convenience would make the general populace resistant to making our jobs any easier. For one thing, you're sending the message that their lives are worthless to us. In doing so, we'd be alienating them. We may even be considered hostiles ourselves. And that's just looking at it from the most pragmatic angle.

[Unfortunately, Sai's ability to comprehend sarcasm is aggressively zero right now.]

They have not, but I do not quite understand their objections, either.

you are angry

[no shit sherlock]

why?

[Seriously, he doesn't understand everyone's attachment to these people. It's not like they will ever see them again in a couple of months.]

we all have a common goal
in order to return to our worlds, we must cooperate with ALISTAIR
it is in our interests to see to the success of our missions
teamwork will accomplish our mission objectives more efficiently than operating independently

i would say that the potential benefits of fewer qorral to interfere with our mission would outweigh the possible drawbacks of their hostility, however
as we saw on the train, a great many of us vastly overpower them

[what's morality can you eat it]

So you say. But if we think the way you suggest, who's to say that someone doesn't find you injured someday and consequently makes the executive decision that leaving you for dead is more efficient than tending your otherwise lethal wounds?

Particularly when faced with a combat situation, someone could be placing themselves at greater risk by stopping to help you. Provided you want to live, though, you might hope that they would decide to take that course of action even though it's not the more "efficient" course.

Destroying lives without reason, or letting them be extinguished because it seems convenient at the time, doesn't make us that much of a team. It promotes a mentality of "us" versus "them". And you don't ever know when you'd become the out-group yourself, for any number of unanticipated reasons like the one I described.

Edited 2016-10-10 10:17 (UTC)

[There's a pause in the thought-typing, then. Probably, Sai has taken off the jewelry for a moment to get his thoughts together, because this entire line of reasoning is foreign to him, as alien as this planet. And yet...it's familiar. ]

i would not begrudge any person who chose to fulfill the mission above my individual life

[Before he met Naruto, that's exactly what he would have done in that same situation. But now he knows there's that one kind of exception, one he doesn't fully understand but which is important to people nonetheless.]

not long ago, i would have said that if i was in such a state, i had clearly failed in my duties, and my usefulness to the mission had expired

however, i understand that such things are different when it comes to one's friends, due to something about the nature of the bonds shared between them

are you suggesting that we view all of the qorral as our friends?

[My, he can only wonder what sorts of experiences his associate has had. Although Haise has been treated as a living weapon, had it hammered into his awareness that he is this above all and should expect death should he not fulfill expectations, that's never muted a desperate wish to continue existing.

He's tacitly accepted every job that's been placed before him, no matter how dangerous, but he always struggled to live on]

I'd say they're just as deserving of life as any of us are. Personally, I'd want to keep on living, and I wouldn't want the people around me to die if there was anything that I could do about it.

[Perhaps because he knows what it is to so fervently wish to keep existing]

If it's easier for you to view them as people who aren't expendable, maybe that's the way to look at it. You might benefit from spending some time among them; it's easier to see someone as a person if you get to know them.

Little lacking in any manner of humor or sense, aren't we?

You have any friends or loved ones?

For real?

whoooaaaaa ok homie

slow ur roll

You'd seriously just allow people to die when you could do something to stop it?

 I think this is something that's more or less along the lines of 'better in theory than in practice'.

People don't like it when you suggest letting innocents die and all.

[The voice coming through the gem sounds cheerful, almost absurdly upbeat, yet still quite genuine.]

I think you raise a very legitimate question! Whether you decide to help them or not is entirely up to you and I wouldn't hold your choice against you.

That said, we DEFINITELY shouldn't be helping them rescue their equipment! That's just plain silly. Personally, I plan to destroy whatever the earthquake didn't already get the moment their backs are turned!

NO!  

what is wrong with u sai come on!!!!!!!! u dont just let people die like that thats just cruel!!! 
we have 2 stop their efforts AND get them out safely that makes the most sense!!!!
even if its extra work!!!!

yes

[why is that so mysterious to everyone]

[???]

i am not rolling?
also my name is not homie, it is sai

we hold no obligation to these people
their lives are not our responsibility

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