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Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#51: Jul 19th 2011 at 2:35:50 PM

Speak for yourself.

If you're held against your will, unable to make major decisions on your own, and are forced to work and follow orders from somebody; you're a slave.

What you described in the second paragraph is indentured servitude.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#52: Jul 19th 2011 at 2:46:25 PM

And what's the alternative? You still wouldn't be making your own choices because you'd be forced to avoid being caught.

You're a slave either way. So, option A) You run for your life, always looking over your shoulder and never truly free, or B)Give in and serve with Dr. Rosen, where you'll get a nice apartment and be able to live a relatively normal life.

Only the stubborn pick option A.

Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#53: Jul 19th 2011 at 2:50:33 PM

And only the naive would pick option B.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#54: Jul 19th 2011 at 2:54:22 PM

So you're really going to tell me that you would run from a great oppurtunity just so you can be "free"? Like I said, you won't be really free. The only peace you'd ever find is in death.

Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#55: Jul 19th 2011 at 3:03:02 PM

And why exactly won't I be free?

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#56: Jul 19th 2011 at 3:06:40 PM

Because you would never be able to make the same choices other people do. You have to focus on not getting caught.

You aren't free to go to the movies with friends on a Friday night.

You aren't free to browse the internet.

You aren't free to find a nice high salary job.

You aren't free to own a nice house.

You aren't free to settle down with a family.

If you run, you're more a slave than you ever were before.

MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#57: Jul 19th 2011 at 3:49:45 PM

There's what's known as an assumed identity.

Besides, some underworld folk are REAL good at fabricating new identities.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#58: Jul 19th 2011 at 3:58:07 PM

These people have major funds. And other Alphas. And soldiers.

Hiding behind a new identity won't save you. It's only a matter of time till they develop a way to find anyone.

Maybe someone will find out and sell you out. Maybe they'll track one of your phone calls. Maybe they'll find your IP address.

It doesn't matter, because they will find you. It's only a matter of time.

And as long as they're still looking for you, you're still running, looking over your shoulder for the man who's come to take you in.

There is no escape,even for an Alpha.

MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#59: Jul 19th 2011 at 4:07:18 PM

There's always an escape - Tijuana.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#60: Jul 19th 2011 at 4:19:42 PM

Out of context.

Point is, even if you hide for the rest of your life, you'll always be paranoid. You'll always have to be careful not to make a mistake.

You won't be able to do what others do because it might get you caught. You won't be free.

MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#61: Jul 19th 2011 at 4:20:29 PM

Still better than living on someone else's leash I say. I'm with Kino 100% on this one.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#62: Jul 19th 2011 at 4:38:07 PM

Even when that leash has some serious perks? You're approaching the "rebel without a cause" mentality, which is pointless.

Serving isn't a bad thing.

MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#63: Jul 19th 2011 at 4:58:30 PM

But causeless rebels get leather jackets and sweet motorcycles.

And George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" as a theme song.

edited 19th Jul '11 4:58:47 PM by MarkVonLewis

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#64: Jul 19th 2011 at 5:02:38 PM

Well, whatever suits you. Don't expect me to join you though.

MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#65: Jul 19th 2011 at 5:04:11 PM

Anyway...

That chick with the enhanced senses is pretty cute.

Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#67: Jul 19th 2011 at 7:25:42 PM

There are plenty of places in the middle of nowhere, or you could take a cue from our favorite dead terrorist and hide in plain sight; it's not impossible.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#68: Jul 19th 2011 at 7:59:13 PM

I'd like to remind you that our favorite "dead terrorist" is dead. And we killed him.

Need a better example.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#69: Jul 20th 2011 at 3:25:12 AM

I liked this episode much better.

I'm going to revise my analysis of Super-Strength: his issue is less "control freak" and more "deeply insecure about his own authority" so he constantly tries to assert authority, regardless of whether or not he has it.

edited 20th Jul '11 3:26:13 AM by Deboss

Fight smart, not fair.
Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#70: Jul 20th 2011 at 7:29:57 AM

[up][up]Took some time, and only because he was hiding in plain sight.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#71: Jul 20th 2011 at 11:41:07 AM

And he couldn't use the computer. Or go out of the compound. He lived a pretty miserable life.

You aren't free. He wasn't free.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#72: Jul 20th 2011 at 1:59:44 PM

[up][up]You're not seriously using Osama bin Laden as a moral example of freedom are you?

Trump delenda est
warrior93 warrior93 from North Carolina Since: Feb, 2011
warrior93
#73: Jul 21st 2011 at 10:30:54 AM

I like Gary he's okay

Place your past in a book burn the pages let them cook.
Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#74: Jul 21st 2011 at 12:43:24 PM

[up][up]Who said anything about morals? he's an example of an individual that managed to avoid capture for a significant amount of time.

vanthebaron Mystical Monkey Master from Carlyle, Il Since: Sep, 2010
Mystical Monkey Master
#75: Jul 21st 2011 at 2:47:58 PM

Watching the eps I can ondemand. It's good

Untitled Power Rangers Story

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