Ataraxion: Mailbox

[jurisimpudent]

"You've reached the voice mailbox of Miles Edgeworth. Leave your name and number and explain why you're contacting me."

Comments

[andblockbuster]

Hindsight's twenty-twenty, Miles. I can't exactly undo it.

[jurisimpudent]

I still - It -

[Good point.]

You still ought to feel regret!

[andblockbuster]

For what? Blowing up an empty [mostly..] building with a billion dollars worth of brain-screw tech in it?

[jurisimpudent]

That's right.

[andblockbuster]

I don't know if I can ever feel bad about that. That seems like a big win for the good guys, personally.

[jurisimpudent]

If you have turned to violent action, can you truly consider yourself one of "the good guys"?

[andblockbuster]

Morality is programming, Miles.

[jurisimpudent]

[And that's answered with an immediate sharpening of his tone.]

It is nothing of the sort. There are things that are absolutely right and things that are absolutely wrong. Destruction is wrong.

[andblockbuster]

Are you religious?

[jurisimpudent]

That - Of course not. I'm an atheist.

[andblockbuster]

Okay, most traditional morality stems from some guy coming down off a mountain with a couple of rocks he got from God and people have accepted this for thousands of years, regardless of whether or not they believe.

Programming.

[jurisimpudent]

[Sharply:]

So disapproval of torture, say, is programming. That's a nice sentiment, Dr. Brink.

[andblockbuster]

Poll half of Sec and see how many of them approve of torture in the right circumstances.

[jurisimpudent]

[Bitten out:]

We are not like that!

[andblockbuster]

The point is even the good guys stoop to torture. Have you ever met a CIA agent?

[HE'S PROGRAMMED SOME...]

[jurisimpudent]

Of - of course I have. And none of them would resort to such action as that. It's illegal, first of all, and -

[Sweet summer child Miles Edgeworth.]

And it is deeply wrong! It is simply wrong to hurt others!

[andblockbuster]

Don't take this offensively, bro, but you are really naive.

[jurisimpudent]

[And at that, his voice turns even angrier.]

I am not naive! I am a prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles. I work for the government you so casually denigrate. I - I know more than you do!

[andblockbuster]

I keep forgetting you're from LA. [Somehow this just makes his point more clear.]

[jurisimpudent]

Is that somehow relevant?

[andblockbuster]

No, it's just weird we're from the same place.

[jurisimpudent]

Along with some ten million other people. It's not like it's some small town in the middle of nowhere.