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<blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 1107642" data-attributes="member: 6521">&quot;The correct idiom, yes, but your logic I doubt... We have after all invested a good deal of time into this already, and a short journey to this Hold -- where perhaps we can get everything all tied up, or at least set in motion a process which can continue without us for as long as it takes to accomplish our other duties -- well, that doesn't seem like much more of a sacrifice. However, if we simply move on now, and forget all about this, first we have failed to meet the duties of basic decency, and beyond that we will have to explain to our employer, 'oh, apologies it took us so long, but we got tied up for a while thinking about helping out some people. I mean, we decided not to, but we decided it was the right thing to at least kill some time looking into doing the right thing.' This sidetrek may not put us in good favor in either case, but to see it through properly redeems us more to our employer, and is by far better to the people here.&quot;&quot;It's unfortunate, friend, if you are more commited to the cause of logic than the cause of good -- but by either cause, or course of action is clear. We need to go to the Hold, find out what we can there, and make whatever deal we need to make.&quot;With that, he turns to Dhormiun.&quot;So, when will we be leaving?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guilt Puppy, post: 1107642, member: 6521"] "The correct idiom, yes, but your logic I doubt... We have after all invested a good deal of time into this already, and a short journey to this Hold -- where perhaps we can get everything all tied up, or at least set in motion a process which can continue without us for as long as it takes to accomplish our other duties -- well, that doesn't seem like much more of a sacrifice. However, if we simply move on now, and forget all about this, first we have failed to meet the duties of basic decency, and beyond [i]that[/i] we will have to explain to our employer, 'oh, apologies it took us so long, but we got tied up for a while [i]thinking[/i] about helping out some people. I mean, we decided not to, but we decided it was the right thing to at least kill some time [i]looking into[/i] doing the right thing.' This sidetrek may not put us in good favor in either case, but to see it through properly redeems us more to our employer, and is by far better to the people here." "It's unfortunate, friend, if you are more commited to the cause of logic than the cause of good -- but by either cause, or course of action is clear. We need to go to the Hold, find out what we can there, and make whatever deal we need to make." With that, he turns to Dhormiun. "So, when will we be leaving?" [/QUOTE]

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