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dreamerdrop · 1 day ago

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holding garak responsible for his behaviour on empok nor is kinda ridiculous for a number of reasons, one of which is obviously the fantastical nature of specifically what happened there in the first place, but. i gotta say.

if someone was slowly induced into a state of psychosis, dosed with utterly absurd amounts of basically amphetamines against their will, and then placed into a situation that involved them being encouraged to murder at least two people in the name of self defense, if they went ahead and flipped out and tried to kill everyone else present at the time, well—

i think i would forgive a real world human for that too, honestly. i do not think that would be their fault. i would think that situation was fucked up and they (and everyone else) were gonna need therapy forever and ever but that was not their fuckin’ fault.

#star trek #star trek ds9 #elim garak #stella talks #.fantasy space drug yes but if i think about the closest equivalent real world scenario for all that bullshit.#.i still don’t think garak did anything wrong morally over there.#.wrong in terms of this is going to haunt everyone who survived forever yeah sure.#.but morally wrong? nah.#.those circumstances were fucked.#trek meta #.just remembered someone arguing garak was evil because of empok nor and like. no. no i’m sorry but that’s not the evil garak.#.even in grounded realistic terms this is not a situation where garak was evil.#.please argue with me about this.#.i like it when people tell me i am wrong and explain in detail why.#.it gives me thoughts to turn around in my empty brain.#.<- not sarcasm genuinely if you disagree with me i wanna know why in detail please i love it.

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