[It sounds like a genuine question, as opposed to anything snide or backhanded.]
Perhaps it's just a matter of where I'm from... We have a tendency to not treat each other well. Particularly under high-stress situations. We contain any incidents that arise by force, not by diplomacy; compassion is secondary to control, if it's taken into consideration at all. I had to make a series of difficult decisions immediately before arriving here, all to that effect, and in the end a large number of people died because of me. But those actions were to spare a far higher number from an even worse fate.
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[It sounds like a genuine question, as opposed to anything snide or backhanded.]
Perhaps it's just a matter of where I'm from... We have a tendency to not treat each other well. Particularly under high-stress situations. We contain any incidents that arise by force, not by diplomacy; compassion is secondary to control, if it's taken into consideration at all. I had to make a series of difficult decisions immediately before arriving here, all to that effect, and in the end a large number of people died because of me. But those actions were to spare a far higher number from an even worse fate.
Compassion would only have hindered the process.