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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 14:18:20 GMT -5
::Pietro walked beside her down the street, memorizing the route should he need to walk it again with another person.:: "Is it right to exclude humans, you mean?"
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 14:26:06 GMT -5
"Not exactly," Emily said. She paused, thinking how to explain; she had the idea, but didn't know how to word it so as not to be misunderstood, as if often - too often - happened to her. "I mean, is it right to separate mutants from humans - to stress the fact that mutants are excluded, so to say. Wouldn't it be better to work in the opposite direction - open clubs that would promote humans and mutants hanging out together?"
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 14:40:51 GMT -5
::Pietro understood the point, and he had a unique perspective. Two thirds of his life had been spent separated from others based on ethnicity or species, while the last third had been intermingled, ruined because of an argument against co-existence. He had his own opinions. He turned to face her.:: "Before I answer, I will ask you this: You go to a school for mutants only. Is that different?"
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 14:46:51 GMT -5
"I go to a school that provides training for mutant powers. Had there been human students as well, taking usual courses, I wouldn't have minded," Emily replied.
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 14:55:59 GMT -5
::Pieto accepted her answer with a slight nod. As promised, he would give her his opinion. There were too many similarities between this and living with the Sinti for him to not explain, although he planned to leave out that he had lived this before. He paused briefly to collect himself; he had much to say and didn't want to speed through it. :: "There is a fear on both sides that the other will draw first blood every time. The persecuted recoil from the majority and the majority sees that as hiding. Two societies won't work. But if you merge those socities without leaving a place for the persecuted to retreat to, they will fear for their lives and feel that they must give up their identities to fit."
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 15:02:37 GMT -5
"I don't understand how this works," Emily admitted after hearing that. "Does merging necessarily mean losing identity or altering it?"
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 15:06:51 GMT -5
"It shouldn't. But how many times has it happened?" ::Pietro put forth the question. History, to him, was a tapestry of of different cultures clashing, when half of them wanted nothing more than to raise their families in peace.::
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 15:10:59 GMT -5
"I don't know," Emily sighed with a small confused smile. "Do you mean to say that the opposite has never happened?"
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 15:21:38 GMT -5
"It is hard to balance," ::Pietro explained. There was a fine line to walk; he had seen it many times over the years.:: "Most people want only to be left alone."
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 15:29:45 GMT -5
"Like me," Emily chuckled with faint bitterness to that, looking aside.
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 15:38:57 GMT -5
::Pietro recognized bitterness in her tone. He wore it like a cloak, knew it intimately like an old friend. She was too young to feel that sort of emotion; it corrupted.:: "Most people want to be themselves. The world around them comes second to their home."
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 15:41:56 GMT -5
"Well, even at home, we still need rooms, corners of our own to retreat to," Emily said.
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 15:50:57 GMT -5
"At times," ::Pietro agreed, thinking of how Wanda had fled him for two weeks, because they shared a bedroom. Those were thoughts he could do without, and he brought the conversation back to her question.:: "It is not right to do it, but it isn't wrong."
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Post by Aqua on Aug 14, 2007 16:19:06 GMT -5
"Just one of the many ways of doing it, I suppose?" Emily wondered. There was no screenplay on how to take the mutant/human division in the world, how to treat it and how to neutralize any possible confrontation in the best possible way. Every mutant handled it in the way he or she saw fit; some were simply more successful than others.
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Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 14, 2007 16:21:10 GMT -5
"Nobody is hurt from it," ::Pietro agreed. It worked; he heard of no problems occuring at the bar so it was best to leave it alone. Let Uncle shape politics and let he and Wanda worry about Magneto.::
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