Round 02. [Video]

[districttwo]

[Cato has watched all of your shenanigans barge. Particularly the debacle between Nygma and Ladd and Crane. He has some words about this.]

You all suck at giving people a show.

[He's all kinds of cocky teenager] I mean you really do. I went back through the network posts and for whatever reasons or not you guys are lousy.

Plus, I'm amazed the admiral isn't taping all of this. Unless he is. Is he? [Cato is not preturbed by that thought. At all.] I mean okay then maybe I'd take it back because if he's taping this for an audience it doesn't matter if you try to hide what you did. The cameras will see, and people will place bets.

I honestly think that he should make the games available for viewing. [Anyone who has any experience with human emotion can tell Cato's trying to be brave when he says this. It sounds hollow, a boy's boast.] That way, people would have a good idea of what sort of tactics to use.

Or I'd just like to watch them.

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[districttwo]

What would you know about it anyway? [There's a sneer on his face.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan smiles in response to Cato's sneer.]

About helping people? Actually kind of a lot.

[districttwo]

If you're teaching them to be weak that's not helping them.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[It's almost like talking to a post-Fall Nietzschean.]

I'm not teaching them to be weak. I'm teaching them that they can be stronger when they work together.

[districttwo]

[There are a lot of similarities]

...I can count on one hand the number of times that's worked. [he moves his hand into a circle.]

...no. wait. One. One time. World War 2 in pre-collapse America.

[hunt4commonwealth]

I'm sure you've had people help you. People who raised you, taught you. Don't you think you're stronger now because of their help?

[districttwo]

...They were working for the capitol. We're all stronger for the capitol's help.

[hunt4commonwealth]

There you go. Example number two for you.

Where I come from there's a race preparing for an invasion. No single planet could hope to hold them off alone. They can only survive by working together.

[districttwo]

...You should destroy the other race utterly.

[hunt4commonwealth]

There are some members of that race who are good. [Well...one Magog who is good. He's never seen or heard of more than that one. But that one opens up the possibility that there could be more.]

But we are trying to destroy the invading force. [Did destroy it. But at a cost that's unacceptable. So Dylan's here to earn a redo from the Admiral.] It's easier said than done, since they number in the trillions.

[districttwo]

..Everything can be killed.

[hunt4commonwealth]

Yeah, they can be killed. But not by one person working alone, or even one planet. But if all of us work together then we'll be stronger than they are.

[districttwo]

Like making an alliance?

[hunt4commonwealth]

Exactly. And it's not just that one threat it makes them stronger against, either. By working together, protecting each other, and holding each other to humanitarian standards they can also establish a rule of law, organize commerce, and promote democratic rule. That was what the old Commonwealth was.