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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-skin.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna feel guilty for giving the bastard a few scars for souvenirs. If that makes me cold, so be it.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to tell you that you don't understand. What I am going to tell you is that being judgmental is very, very easy and fairly useless most days.

It's perfectly fine that you don't agree with the things that were done. You are more then welcome to your opinion. You're welcome to yell it from the hills as well. (I did like the little attempt at a save at the start though. Some advice, if something doesn't feel right in your gut, I say go with it.)

Anyway, you've got a right to all these things. But we've also got a right to tell you that you don't understand. To tell you that you haven't had the training that we've had. That probably seems terribly unfair, but then life often is.

A dead enemy is an enemy that's no longer a threat. It's a question of practicality. If all the group did was rough the guy up a little, that's pretty mild, Dude.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

"I don't care that he's killed millions of people."

I am assuming that you mean to say that you do not see the fact that he killed so many people to be a justifiable reason for inflicting pain on him when it appeared that he had already been taken down, not that you mean to infer that you do not actually mind that he brought about the deaths of these people, yes?

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Jay, something that you might not have been clear on in all that confusion that changes things here is what the man's powers were. He apparently fed off... support, for lack of a better word. SHIELD will have to be the ones to determine precisely how it works.

But the thing is, the people who were attacking Apocalypse weren't doing it for the fun of it. They were doing it because that was precisely what was necessary to counter his power. Even the people who weren't actually physically attacking him were... rejecting him. It was literally the only way we knew of at the time to depower the man.

I don't know where this perception came from - not just you - that it was done out of vengeance. It wasn't. It was a tactical necessity - whatever emotional overtones were there, they were secondary.

[x-dryad.livejournal.com]

I agree. Two wrongs don't make a right. But I've always believed that like it's worse to not take action against the atrocities and let them take over. There's a quote that says something about how when good people stay silent that is the worse of all.

[x-pete.livejournal.com]

>>>I'm not cold hearted<<<

Really? Because from here, watching you sit in judgment of your friends (and do not claim you are not, because you have just called them cold hearted), who have stepped up to risk life and limb time and time again when you couldn't find the balls to do so, that seems pretty fucking cold to me.

It doesn't matter what you know, or what you don't, regardless of your personal feelings, you have simply not earned the right to publicly judge these people. Your job here, in so far as you have one, is to not make them feel like you think less of them.