Aather: Candle call post

[thinkoutsidethebox]

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Comments

[rebells]

Some people have more wrong with them than others.

[he's not being entirely serious . . . that might be hard to tell, though.]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Obviously.

[rebells]

Don't look so happy when you say that . . . .

[thinkoutsidethebox]

It would be boring otherwise, wouldn't it?

[rebells]

People can be interesting in ways that don't involve pathological issues.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

And would you want everyone in the world to all be invariably, mundanely interesting, with all precisely the same amount of non-pathological issues? To begin with, wouldn't that make you feel a bit left out?

[rebells]

[wow I can already tell you are going to be a bad influence]

Left out of what? Of having pathological issues?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Of not having them.

[rebells]

[rolls his eyes, not dignifying that with a response]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[giggles]

Have you considered that maybe it's having issues that's preventing you from wanting to talk to me, rather than the reverse?

[rebells]

[flatly]

No.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Well, maybe you should consider it.

[rebells]

Thank you for your input. I'll certainly take that into consideration.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Good.

[rebells]

[ . . .

drums his fingers in his lap]

There was a game today, you know.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

There are games most days... was it something worth mentioning?

[rebells]

It was a more interesting game than most. You might have enjoyed it.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Oh? What was it?

[rebells]

It was one of those games where teams were paired, and had to choose to give or take from one another . . . mutual giving gained points, mutual taking resulted in a stalemate.

We could see everyone's decisions and point totals after every round, and the game ended when one team reached nine points.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Another variant on the prisoner's dilemma, then? It's not an original concept.