----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Basart" basart@uclink.berkeley.edu To: "Blake's7" blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: [B7L] Re: People More Important (was Shadows of Blake)
Stephen wrote: .I know that it > emphasises the difference between Blake and the
Federation
(People are more important than things>
Yes, Blake has said that people are more important than things. But Avon says something like the following several times (this quote from
"Volcano"),
and nobody seems to contradict him:
AVON: All right, but you haven't much time. If you are not back here in an hour I shall have to consider the safety of the Liberator as the first priority. Do you understand me?
Is it "the safety of the Liberator is first because I want it and I don't care about the rest of you?" Or is it "the safety of the Liberator is
first
because only it can protect the rest of us?" And why doesn't anybody argue???
--Ann
They don't argue because they think it's the latter ("the safety of the Liberator is first because only it can protect the rest of us?"), which seems a reasonable viewpoint, and this no doubt suits Avon, but its more likely to be the former ("the safety of the Liberator is first because I want it and I don't care about the rest of you?"), given Avon's behaviour on several occasions (e.g. Orbit).
Best wishes, James