[YES. HE DOES. Because he is not here to coddle anybody's deep-seated fears except Coop's and you know what, it's a figure of speech anyway.]
I don't know. Outsmart them? Beat them at their own game? If I had the answer key for how to stamp out all the evil in the world, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
And maybe you're thinking that the world needs death because of people like that, not for the guys who get off on it but for the victims for whom it's the last resort. Maybe we do. But none of us has ever tried to play hardball in a world where death was off the table before, and maybe the rules are different. There's a lot we don't know. The best any of us can do is look at the situation in front of us and make the best call we can with what we've got. They should've drummed into your head during training that you're not going to save everyone, no matter how convinced you are that you can be the exception. We do our best. We go to sleep at night. And the next day we go back again because every damn one of us believes that what we do is going to make a tiny bit of difference that'll add up to something big in the long run.
Now, look. You've got a brain in that walnut sitting between your shoulders. You want to stop them? Don't sit around waiting for them to make the first move. Like it or not, the rules are different here, and nothing says we're stuck using the same playbook we had at home. They've got a dog that spits fire? Maybe we've got a cat with a water gun. You're the one telling me to mind-meld with an arthropod as a valid medical procedure, remember? Figure it out. Write a new playbook. It's sure as hell better than stressing yourself into an anxiety attack over an equation that's never going to come out in your favor anyway.
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except Coop'sand you know what, it's a figure of speech anyway.]I don't know. Outsmart them? Beat them at their own game? If I had the answer key for how to stamp out all the evil in the world, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
And maybe you're thinking that the world needs death because of people like that, not for the guys who get off on it but for the victims for whom it's the last resort. Maybe we do. But none of us has ever tried to play hardball in a world where death was off the table before, and maybe the rules are different. There's a lot we don't know. The best any of us can do is look at the situation in front of us and make the best call we can with what we've got. They should've drummed into your head during training that you're not going to save everyone, no matter how convinced you are that you can be the exception. We do our best. We go to sleep at night. And the next day we go back again because every damn one of us believes that what we do is going to make a tiny bit of difference that'll add up to something big in the long run.
Now, look. You've got a brain in that walnut sitting between your shoulders. You want to stop them? Don't sit around waiting for them to make the first move. Like it or not, the rules are different here, and nothing says we're stuck using the same playbook we had at home. They've got a dog that spits fire? Maybe we've got a cat with a water gun. You're the one telling me to mind-meld with an arthropod as a valid medical procedure, remember? Figure it out. Write a new playbook. It's sure as hell better than stressing yourself into an anxiety attack over an equation that's never going to come out in your favor anyway.
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