ｖｉｄｅｏ » { ００４ }

[heterophobe]

Given all the rah rah rah for morality that I've seen lately, I figure the topic should be broached.

To me, it doesn't makes a difference and that's what's taken me so long to get to it. If kids want to drink, they're going to find a way to get to what they want. Not to mention, I hardly hold the monopoly on alcohol. [ he's getting to his point in a very roundabout way, yes. ] I'd also like to say that there isn't a day that goes by that I don't see at least one person drinking on camera, drunk texting or boasting about their inebriated state in some manner or another. More often than not, they're what I'd consider underage. And I'm not inclined to give much of a shit about where the product is going because I'm not profiting from it specifically in monetary value.

We don't have a set legal system. Each of us are from countries or worlds where the age cap varies or is completely irrelevant.

That being said, my point is: should there be an age restriction on those I knowingly permit into [ hm, no he's not going to say my ] an establishment where drinking and partying could lead to one thing and then another? I've seen an awful lot of preaching about save the children. God forbid we overlook their sweet, virgin eyes. If we're going to be stuck together for an indefinite amount of time, this might as well be addressed to [ huh, okay, what word does he want to use with you assholes? ] keep the peace. Or something like it. So, let's have it.

Don't care, couldn't be made to care or alternatively, open it to discussion. [ he's bored enough to let strangers and friends bicker at him and among each other. ] And if you were hired by myself or my [ other half ] business partner, report.

[ the camera angle lowers like he's done or ready to shut it off, instead he's scratching behind his ear and shifting his jaw to begrudgingly announce: ] Oh, and by the way, for those of you that knew him.. I think it's safe to finally assume that Justin Taylor has gone home. [ or wherever the fuck people who aren't dead but simply gone go, he doesn't say but his condescending and bitter fucking uncomfortable smirk implies. ]

Comments

video;

[cons]

Hola, bossman.

video;

[heterophobe]

[ BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. ]

What, no input?

[ video ]

[kicktomorrow]

At least if they're drinking in there people can keep an eye on them. Like you said, they'll do it anyway.

[ video ]

[heterophobe]

There's not nearly enough staff - if you can call them that, considering they volunteer - to babysit. But I stand by my point, if they don't find it here, they could just as easily find it elsewhere.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

I would advocate for there being such restrictions - particularly here, where they have neither parents nor guardians to guide and instruct them. Knowing the people of this ship, however, I doubt I'll have many who agree with me.

[voice]

[heterophobe]

It's an open forum. I asked for opinions. I'm not personally going to shoot you down. [ but he has a feeling plenty will. namely the ones this discussion could restrict. ] Still, would the same rules apply to those that've never had a guardian to vouch for them? Even if their idea of an adult is anyone that lives to fourteen, or fifteen, or whatever the number is.

[voice]

[faderbroderson]

If I may interject, how would you go about determining the parameters of such restrictions?

[voice]

[player_not_slayer]

I don't see a fuckin' point in that. [Says one of said underage kids who was drinking cough cough]

If people're from all kinds of worlds and realities an' shit, who's to say which world's ideas are the best for deciding on that crap?

video;

[player_not_slayer]

Blah, blah, save the children. I think we can handle our own bidness, really, if we're deciding to do stupid shit while trapped on a space ship away from 'good moral influences.' [There's totally air quotes around that last phrase.]

video;

[heterophobe]

Fuck good moral influences. [ he's obviously the best role model. ] I'm addressing something that might be a concern to a majority but doesn't necessarily apply to my personal ideals.

How old are you?

voice;

[learnedtosmile]

It sounds good in theory but any age restriction anyone tries to impose will come up with some kind of exception. In the end, it's all pretty arbitrary - I'm sure there are some adults here who probably shouldn't be drinking, either.

I'd say - as long as someone's capable of understanding potential risks to themselves, and isn't doing anything that could harm someone else, no reason to stop them.

I just wish everyone would exercise a little common sense when talking or dealing on a public network.

voice;

[heterophobe]

It's the main source of communication and entertainment here, and some people get off on the shock factor. Unless there's a group willing to police the network, people are going to act and say and do whatever they feel like here. The same as they might online (where and when they have that technology) at home.

[ but this guy's actually being logical, even when some of that latter comment could apply to this discussion in its entirety. ] I don't want to clink glasses with eight or eighty year olds but my opinion hasn't changed. If you want to drink, drink. If you don't, don't. If they aren't imposing on someone else's choices, I don't see what the fuck it matters either.

text

[toasterprophet]

What do drinking and sex have to do with morality?

I'm assuming you mean sex by "one thing and then another" although maybe you're talking about tearing livestock limb from limb, in which case there are maybe animal rights and property issues involved.

text »

[heterophobe]

In my philosophy? Nothing. To the rest of society when I'm from, everything. I've had and seen several encounters telling people to keep it appropriate for the under eighteen crowd.

I mean one things leads to another, whatever the fuck it is. On board, it could go either way. Could apply to anything. The truth is, I know less than half the people on this ship. There have been efforts to try and change that, group ones. I was curious if creating a system meant there should be other kinds.

text;

[heltersskelter]

No.

text;

[heterophobe]

Noted and taken into consideration.

text

[rickon]

yes you are right
i can drink what ever i want

permatext

[championhawke]

that's an awful idea

that's how women happen to you

[kindlings]

[ What are these people on about? She's never heard a bunch quite so yappy, who—if she had to be honest, which she will—aren't really saying much of anything of substance, at all.

So, people here are getting drunk. Who cares? Ygritte frowns into the camera. ] ...What makes you think y'can tell people whether'r not they'll drink, wherever they are?

[ A slight pause, before her voice takes a slightly acerbic tone. ] ...Or, f' that matter, who they can fuck?

[amethysts]

'Cause everybody here is a fucking expert, right?

[EYE ROLLING.]

text

[doggedly]

the 'children'
and really generally everyone else of the ship
wish to say thanks but no thanks


& thanks for trying though

text.

[wont]

[ Help a girl out, Sirius. (No, this isn't encouragement.) ]

They've laws for drink?

( V I D E O )

[cloy]

'One thing or another'. [ Ros hums. She seems rather taken by the prospect. ] They'll all have t'learn sooner or later, now, won't they?

( V I D E O )

[heterophobe]

I certainly learned sooner. [ and he's morally gray at best. he knew very young that you could fill bottles back to the same level with vinegar or water and to get the hell out of the house before anyone noticed. ] Fake IDs serve their purpose where I come from, so that wasn't my side of the argument.

I wanted to bring it to light before someone else could complain about it.

video

[stacked]

Kids wanna drink, let 'em drink. Their body, their call, their hangover if they get retarded about it.

[ the girl in the white wifebeater and black bra + leather pants combo is for underage drinking! shocker. ]

video

[heterophobe]

There might not be brown bags but with a closed door policy, I don't see how that would stop them from sending someone to retrieve it for them. Or that they wouldn't find it burrowed in a kitchen or a bedroom.

visual

[became]

And count down to Edgeworth clutching his pearls and demanding we think of the children in five, four, three...

visual

[heterophobe]

I might actually pay in favors to see that. If only because we're at a surprising lack of fabulous drag queens to brighten the place up.

text;

[insufferableprick]

[ Dave is kind of nervous when he finally gets to responding to this, but he zeroes in on the part he actually gives a shit about. ]

so
justin came back from strela and then disappeared?

text;

[heterophobe]

Isn't that what I said? He's gone.
Were you a friend?

text;

[dilemma]

The space police cracking down on general debauchery now?

Clearly they haven't been to a 2012 high school party.

text;

[heterophobe]

Aren't they always? I thought I'd flirt with their idea of right and wrong.

Or any high school party, for that matter.

[blunted]

the morality brigade get to you yet?

[heterophobe]

They haven't reached my asking price (they can't afford me) and they haven't offered me sexual favors, so I'm going to have to settle on no.