Unguided, 4: Colours of Grey Morality
26 Feb 2021Meowers
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This thing swirled around my usual daily thoughts and finally shaped into some words that deserve a quick sketch, as I've been catching my breath, preparing for another flight, with an ammo box serving as a chair. Staring at... Well, pretty much at everything that's fussing around in the tourist starport, you know, those liners arriving and departing, station vehicles roaming around, bunches of tourists wandering back and forth, service machinery whirring, holo-banners blinking everywhere, etc. Especially holo-banners. Reading one of the text tickers that was right above my head almost made me flip, but it was worth it.
Turns out, this pompous Galactic Summit attracted so many people unhappy about all those bigwigs onboard, that they decided to do a massive giveaway for anyone who wants to play their bodyguard. And so the killcount soared. So now we have a political tea party on a (relatively) safe island in the middle of a blood-n-fire lake. How cute!
"My work is perilous and complicated," says another random Joe Fart. "I am a... (breathy) ...bounty hunter!"
Hey, you're just a murderous goon seeking a justification, earning a living by serving for anyone who actually lets you do the killing and are ready to pay for it.
"Bwaah! We'we enfowcing the law, cweaning the Gawaxy fwom cwiminaws!". Sure. How do you define criminals, differ them from the other folks? Scanner? Magnificient. No thinking, no evaluation of your own actions, not even a trace of thought about what's right and what's wrong, just jumping on anyone marked red, let those who wrote this law do the thinking for you. Hah. Govt and corpo lapdogs are being promised a proper funeral at least, if something goes wrong, while you're just an expendable.
What's the definition of 'criminal' is, anyway? Why organising and paying for a massive slaughter suddenly ceased to be a crime? Apparently, assault and murder aren't always a crime, those who define 'crimes' gladly allow you to kill certain groups of people when their own butts are in danger, let it be a state of war or some grandiose Galactic Summit or any other kind of rubbish. But attacking someone who calls this tune of killing will immediately turn you into a 'criminal'.
Yup, some random freighter robber who had stolen a load of goodies from a moneybag's pocket, or some angry worker hijacking his mining ship to a neutral zone, or... you name it. They all end up with bounties placed on their heads and some narrow-minded 'voluntary law enforcers' going after them, that's how it works, if you disrupt someone's steady income, that person will eventually get angry and pay someone for getting rid of the risk. There's no other ethics with these bounties. But when being packed into one system and fueled up with massive payoffs, it turns into an outright carnage.
And a bunch of fancy oily politicians are sitting right in the middle of it, babbling about 'prosperity and agreements'.
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