TM 212 - A fly on the wall

212 - What event do you wish you could have been a "fly on the wall" for?

Everyone in Los Angeles had their theories, and I'm sure everyone in Sunnydale was equally as curious and suppositious as we were. In the end, neither of the parties involved were inclined to describe the encounter with anything further than the single word "intense". It didn't stop any of us from wondering, though.

It certainly didn't stop some of us from voicing some of those thoughts, either. Perhaps at the next party, Cordelia and I will stage a revival of Buffy and Angel: the Reunion, a two-person drama that met with such rave reviews in its first and only performance.

( Meeting halfway )

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QM 45 - "I just want my ration of common humanity."

45 - "I just want my ration of common humanity." - 'Lawrence of Arabia'

Human nature is a strange thing. Debate rages amongst philosophers and psychologists, amongst sociologists and anthropologists and all manner of learned minds as to whether human nature leans us in a constructive or a destructive direction, and indeed, whether or not human nature even exists.

One thing upon which I would believe all sides would agree is that in the absence of choice, the concept of human nature is irrelevant. Without the option to act against human nature (whatever it might be), how would one be able to define that nature?

Robbed of choice and robbed of freedom, one is robbed of humanity. That is the harsh and brutal lesson Jasmine taught us-- or at least, should have taught us-- all.

And though the aftermath was terrible: riots and destruction, a world with its spirit and hopes shattered as completely as the illusion of Jasmine's allure, it was at least a human world, flaws and all. The world can be hard and cold and unforgiving, but for it to become better by any mechanism other than our own choice and determination, then humanity is worthless.

Peace at the point of a gun (or in this case, at the maw of a monster) is inhuman.

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