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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Vecna" data-source="post: 3728097" data-attributes="member: 755">"You ignorant hypocrite!" Archeville spat.  "Technology could be used for evil, so destroy it?  That's the exact same mindset the witch-burners used -- 'that witch could cast a hex on me, or turn me into a frog, or summon a demon to possess me, so let's burn all the witches!  Let God and St. Peter sort them out!'  Heck, while we're at it, let's round up all the Metahumans and kill them, too, since some of them turn into supervillains!""I might have been able to find out what it was, if you hadn't destroyed it, if I had had time to study it!  That's how you find out about things -- you study them!  How did you know all the things that fancy staff of yours does?  Did the knowledge simply appear in your mind one day?  Or did you research it?  Maybe even experiment with it?  Why, just today, you found it can unleash a damaging blast of energy!  But, no, you just presume it's going to turn evil, all because you don't know what it could do, just like the fear-gripped savages who harassed and killed any misunderstood minority.""And we don't know who made this" he picks up a few random pieces of the generator, "Archer said he got it from an arms dealer in New York.  But now we have no way of finding out who exactly that is, of tracking her down and stopping any further distribution of dangerous technology, because of your shortsightedness!""Not to mention that you've still destroyed evidence which could have been used against the Minister and his associates!  Archeville throws the pieces down, a few scattering towards Zenji's feet, and bent to pick up the Minister's laptop.  "As for their research, I most certainly do intend to try and make something of it -- doing nothing with it, or destroying it, would mean that any pain and suffering these people went through would be for nothing!  Or would you prefer that nothing be done to try and reverse the changes done to them?  To have them live out their lives with the alterations Archer and the Minister made?"</blockquote>

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