first leaving people to die in the yellow zones is not equivalent to Nod collecting them then forcingly exposing them to tiberium till they mutate or become visoroids then vivisecting them or forcibly grafting cybernatics and mind control systems to them
Look, Nod turning
ME, personally, into a visceroid is not morally equivalent to GDI failing to evacuate
me into a Blue Zone in the 2020s or 2030s and leaving me to turn into a visceroid by 'natural causes.'
But I very much doubt that Nod ever performed those experiments on more than, say, one million people, whereas a LOT more than one million people got left behind to die of tiberium exposure in the GDI evacuations of the 2020s and their systematic efforts to keep Yellow Zoners out of the Blue Zones for fear of Nod infiltration.
For every visceroid and agonized unwilling cyborg Nod created as some kind of weird science project, there are a lot of people who died very terrible deaths primarily due to GDI policy decisions.
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And YES, you can put together some counter-argument for why Nod's side of this argument is unimportant and GDI is the wronged party here, Nod is much worse, and so on, and so on. I know you can do it, I could probably even write the argument you'd use to do so for you.
Please, just take a moment before you start doing that, okay?
Because both in game and out of game, we have reached the point where a man has to stop and have a sense of perspective and say "holy fuck, at some point the argument just
DOES NOT FUCKING MATTER."
Any real or fictional armed conflict as totalizing and destructive as the GDI-Nod wars have been will,
INEVITABLY, create enormous amounts of reasons on both sides to be very, very angry that the other side of the conflict ever existed in the first place.
ANY such conflict provides ample evidence to generate in the mind of one side's partisans a great fiery conviction that the other side does not deserve to live and certainly does not deserve to live in peace. That the only acceptable end of the war is for the other side to give up
everything, to be subjugated under the partisan's triumphant boot, to grovel and admit that they were wrong about everything that ever matters, that their own dead deserved to die while the partisan's dead were all innocent victims.
The only problem is, people like that are the reason why wars go on indefinitely and it is
incredibly fucking stupid to insist on letting that kind of argument form the prevailing tone of GDI-Nod interactions.
It
needs to fucking stop.
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It needs to fucking stop.
In-character it needs to stop because
the world will literally die if Nod and GDI remain at each other's throats and Kane isn't convinced that GDI intends to treat Nod with some degree of decency in the event that it prevails over a post-tiberium future.
Out of character, it needs to stop because
we literally just had this vote, and the "prioritize reconciling with Nod and learning from the Tacitus" faction won out over the "prioritize subjugating Nod and forcing them to grovel beneath a GDI boot" faction.
The argument is
OVER. It is resolved.
You are arguing here against many if not most of the most active long-term participants of the quest. You are arguing against things the QM and those who have co-written Nod-related content with the QM have explicitly told you in so many words. It is too much. It needs to stop.
