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[hacktivist]

sometimes i hate to be right

but so far

ENGLAND
ARGENTINA
NORWAY
RUSSIA
ITALY
GHANA
GERMANY
SAVOLETTA
(DOLVANIA)

if i were you i'd be canceling your travel plans (effective immediately)

[Encrypted to Maxine Gibson, unhackable]

your current status [?]

[Encrypted to Tony Stark and Magneto, unhackable]

last chance to abort

Comments

[hacktivist]

I am a free will, and you dislike that. That appears to be the illogical factor in this equation.

[latveria]

No, I find your definition of free will to be flawed. Though my patience for your argumentativeness on this issue is quickly draining.

The girl who asked after you. She influences your choices and your actions. You have allowed her to become close to you, but you cannot deny that her concerns influence your own. Would you argue that?

[hacktivist]

I did not define free will, only asserted that I possessed it. You, Doctor, did most of the defining.

I operate via necessary truths, validity and entailment. Emotion can be tamed and contained by logic - Mr. Spock, for example.

[latveria]

You asserted that influences had nothing to do with your free will, I disagreed. Our definitions were implied by our positions in the argument, if never explicitly stated.

Influence is not purely emotional. It can dictate one's perspective and thus what they view as necessary. [Ignoring your Star Trek reference. DOOM HAS NO TIME FOR TV.]

[hacktivist]

We appear to be talking at massive cross purposes, Doctor. And it is a waste of valuable time while Vulcanus looms ready to destroy us all. Will you be remembered as a quibbler of semantics?

[an amused pause that he ignored that reference] I did not say influence was purely emotional. But you brought up "an emotional connection" as influence, which, incidentally, I would advise you not do again.

[latveria]

Taking action against Vulcanus with their current influence poses the dilemma of creating an international event. Surely such is a concern, but not one that should be handled by a paranoid mind.

You should reconsider presuming to advice me in the future, Ghost.

[hacktivist]

So much faith you place in the psychiatric system.

I will not.

[latveria]

It has proved to have scientific merit and use to me. I respect that.

As you wish. Pray that we should rarely cross paths, then.

[hacktivist]

One last thing, Doctor.

A demonstration of free will regardless of influence.

[hangs up]