I will. We're still heroes even if we aren't at home.
[ She chews on her lip a little. ]
Even if we were never to make it back home, we're instructed to always do what we can to help the local population. It's what's right. It's what we would like to happen when people come to our world, too. And it wouldn't be alright for us to expect that but not do it ourselves.
[ There was a certain logic there.
Though, in truth, and one she had not yet come to on her own, it was far more likely that this command was to keep them from getting used to a life other than the one they had been conditioned into accepting. Making it a case of 'do unto others' merely gave it a moral backbone to hold it up. ]
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[ She chews on her lip a little. ]
Even if we were never to make it back home, we're instructed to always do what we can to help the local population. It's what's right. It's what we would like to happen when people come to our world, too. And it wouldn't be alright for us to expect that but not do it ourselves.
[ There was a certain logic there.
Though, in truth, and one she had not yet come to on her own, it was far more likely that this command was to keep them from getting used to a life other than the one they had been conditioned into accepting. Making it a case of 'do unto others' merely gave it a moral backbone to hold it up. ]