You know as well as I do the power of feeding into someone's fears, especially if that someone has been enslaved before. That's exactly what you were doing down thread, and if you don't know the risk of that, I can't help you.
I've seen these discussions before. I haven't taken part. But I definitely want you to come back with a plan that answers all of our concerns:
• How do get people identities that hold up in this world, while also giving them a new understanding of this world. • A guarantee that any newcomers won't flee from someone's apartment at the first chance. Any and all. • A guarantee that any newcomers won't be arrested, even just trying to get into a store because a door won't open. • A guarantee that letting people go wild won't make them fall prey to people like Johann P. Grey, the UNA, or anyone else who might decide they have a problem with us. Elsewhere in this post, Damian is referring to someone who's obsessed with people like us. That person cut off a piece of him and kept it as a trophy.
I'm not raising these concerns because I think you can't, but because I think you're failing to see the bigger picture. We're already tackling security concerns brought up in one of Stephen's posts a few months back, both to protect ourselves and offer safe passage out of the city. And you want to tack on one additional security concern.
Come up with a plan that doesn't depend on us getting lucky for a short period of time because the city was in ruins. If we're depending on being overlooked, that won't always be the same.
Do that instead of arguing with what's in place because you feel that it's traumatizing. I mean it. I'd love to hear how you can adapt something to work better that involves guarantees instead of luck. Because instead, right now, you're just inciting more irritation within our group for no good reason.
cw: mentions of slavery
I've seen these discussions before. I haven't taken part. But I definitely want you to come back with a plan that answers all of our concerns:
• How do get people identities that hold up in this world, while also giving them a new understanding of this world.
• A guarantee that any newcomers won't flee from someone's apartment at the first chance. Any and all.
• A guarantee that any newcomers won't be arrested, even just trying to get into a store because a door won't open.
• A guarantee that letting people go wild won't make them fall prey to people like Johann P. Grey, the UNA, or anyone else who might decide they have a problem with us. Elsewhere in this post, Damian is referring to someone who's obsessed with people like us. That person cut off a piece of him and kept it as a trophy.
I'm not raising these concerns because I think you can't, but because I think you're failing to see the bigger picture. We're already tackling security concerns brought up in one of Stephen's posts a few months back, both to protect ourselves and offer safe passage out of the city. And you want to tack on one additional security concern.
Come up with a plan that doesn't depend on us getting lucky for a short period of time because the city was in ruins. If we're depending on being overlooked, that won't always be the same.
Do that instead of arguing with what's in place because you feel that it's traumatizing. I mean it. I'd love to hear how you can adapt something to work better that involves guarantees instead of luck. Because instead, right now, you're just inciting more irritation within our group for no good reason.