[ The first part earns an immediate- ] I've cleaned up worse. Just need an asphalt scraper.
[ Thus immediately proving that yes, Shinjiro's narrative is correct and he's still free to make really tactless suicide jokes around Will.
It's also the last he gets, because for one long moment, even Shinjiro can pick up that he edged too close somehow. Brushing up against something that makes the expression drop from someone flustered to Absolutely Nothing. Why is it samedog? He's being attacked right now and the attacker doesn't even know what he's doing. This is the worst - because he Gets It. But saying that is unacceptable. But ignoring Shinjiro's despair is unacceptable. But there's no way to answer it as someone separate, because the answer can be thrown in his face later as hypocrisy. But there's no way to answer it as someone sympathetic, because that indicates a level of attachment and bias that destroys neutrality. The thoughts run in constant argument with each other, logic versus emotion, and on both sides there's a brief wish for the old days. Everything was sorted into binary, white and black, right and wrong, and that would be the end of it. Simple.
Logically, this would mean all aspects of a conversation should be measured, the proper answer to a question considered - is this correct? Will the person hear it as it was meant? How many questions or digging into his business should be expected afterward? What level of attachment will need to be severed afterward to maintain professional distance?
Instead, the entire problem is sidestepped, and the answer is in the pure absent-minded certainty of an idiot just running their mouth off. ]
Because you are a fuckin' stupid idiot hypocrite. Tell people you care about them. Let them care about you in return. An' the next time you get your feelings hurt or whatever just say something. You think people are mind readers? Or is it the whole 'boo hoo, I sinned once, let me stew in my guilt forever as repentance' thing? Hell, you're acting like you're Furniture or something. It's ridiculous. You don't have to change overnight, but maybe you'll get better results if you stop being an ass and quit the shovin' people away act.
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[ Thus immediately proving that yes, Shinjiro's narrative is correct and he's still free to make really tactless suicide jokes around Will.
It's also the last he gets, because for one long moment, even Shinjiro can pick up that he edged too close somehow. Brushing up against something that makes the expression drop from someone flustered to Absolutely Nothing. Why is it samedog? He's being attacked right now and the attacker doesn't even know what he's doing. This is the worst - because he Gets It. But saying that is unacceptable. But ignoring Shinjiro's despair is unacceptable. But there's no way to answer it as someone separate, because the answer can be thrown in his face later as hypocrisy. But there's no way to answer it as someone sympathetic, because that indicates a level of attachment and bias that destroys neutrality. The thoughts run in constant argument with each other, logic versus emotion, and on both sides there's a brief wish for the old days. Everything was sorted into binary, white and black, right and wrong, and that would be the end of it. Simple.
Logically, this would mean all aspects of a conversation should be measured, the proper answer to a question considered - is this correct? Will the person hear it as it was meant? How many questions or digging into his business should be expected afterward? What level of attachment will need to be severed afterward to maintain professional distance?
Instead, the entire problem is sidestepped, and the answer is in the pure absent-minded certainty of an idiot just running their mouth off. ]
Because you are a fuckin' stupid idiot hypocrite. Tell people you care about them. Let them care about you in return. An' the next time you get your feelings hurt or whatever just say something. You think people are mind readers? Or is it the whole 'boo hoo, I sinned once, let me stew in my guilt forever as repentance' thing? Hell, you're acting like you're Furniture or something. It's ridiculous. You don't have to change overnight, but maybe you'll get better results if you stop being an ass and quit the shovin' people away act.