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[x_icarus]

I know this isn't the right time for this, but apart of me feels like it is. I'm not looking for a fight, but it's gonna come out that way because I've been thinking about it and I'm a little tired of people saying the same thing.

"You're not on the team, you don't know any better, you don't understand and you don't know what you're talking about."

Just because we're not on the team doesn't mean we don't know what we're talking about. Maybe we don't know all the details but it'd be really nice if you stop saying stuff like that.

I have my opinions and I reckon I'm allowed to put them out there. I found the last days troubling, from both what's been happening and how it's panned out in everyone around me. I'm not on the team for just that reason. Because I can't do attacks and I can't steel myself from things like someone dying, or someone gettin the tar beaten out of them, even though they've fallen already. I don't care that he's killed millions of people. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I don't think this is gonna solve anything or settle the upset stomach I have everytime I think about those looks that I caught when they were burnin off their anger. I get it, everyone's mad as hell, but I'm not cold hearted and I'm not like that. I can't relate.

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[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

I see how it is. I spend the day in Medlab, and the entire school loses cohesion. I blame Stavros.

That said -- though I do realize the conversation has gotten a bit heated, is that really call to resort to profanity and defamation? Glad as I am to see tempers have now cooled somewhat, it was still a bit startling. I am somewhat accustomed to Jay's idiosyncrasies, but Mr. Wisdom, aware as I am that I may have cause to regret this, particularly having gathered from school gossip you could end me in something less than thirty seconds, I found your provocation in particular a bit surprising for a former school counselor. The enemy was left in Manhattan -- a detail I think would behoove us all to remember, regardless of our differences of opinion. We need no more fighting.

At any rate, to the point. Jay, whilst I agree with Kyle's assertion that there may perhaps have been a more appropriate (re: less inflammatory) way in which to approach the matter, I do understand your concerns. As Mr. Summers has already sufficiently laid out the tactical concerns, I shall not reiterate beyond the fact that, to my perception, the measure of force seemed sufficient.

As for the perceived hostility towards the bloke -- on this, I can speak only for myself. In truth, I was indeed in a state of heightened hostility. Whilst I agree this is not the ideal state in which to engage an enemy, in this particular case I do not believe it significantly impacted my performance. Beyond that -- perhaps it is wrong of me, but in a perverse way I am glad for that outrage. I am not a soldier, nor a weapon. I have an emotional reaction to violence and the injury of others. Though I agree no action should be taken in anger, I feel it is every bit as dangerous to lack feeling. Without passion, attrocity becomes possible -- the callous dismissal of life as "acceptable casualties," the taking of lives as devoid of emotion as the push of a button. For some individuals this is perhaps a necessary evil, but not, I hope, for the X-Men.

We are none of us perfect, but we also walk a somewhat uneven slope. Perhaps, at times, we stumble to one side or the other, but it is my hope that the fact we try to keep to the straight earns us something.

[x-pete.livejournal.com]

Don't tell anyone, but I'm not actually a trained counsellor.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Mate, if even half of what I'm told of you is true, you could name yourself Once and Future King of the Northern Hemisphere and you would find yourself hard-pressed to be called upon it.

(Out of curiousity, I've always wondered if there was any truth to rumours of that bit with the dog . . .)

[x-pete.livejournal.com]

Most of what you have been told is lies, and I am in fact, a terrible let down.

(And the bit with the dog is especially lies, I don't care whose photos you have seen.)

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Dude, you can't pin nothing on me. I didn't even start it this time.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for writing that out. Meant a lot to actually have it laid out a little more in detail for me. The last line should be the motto or something of Xmen.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me: if it's worth saying, it's worth saying at great length.