{"id":11541,"date":"2014-04-22T03:44:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-5\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T03:44:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:44:46","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-5\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Somehow I\u2019m not sure the people who worked for him would agree with you,” she mused. “There\u2019s a difference between small, whiney, everyday evil and the sort of huge overarching thing that,” she swallowed hard, “Thanos is.” She contemplated the floor for a moment. “And it sounds really simple to say that he\u2019s worse, I guess on a direct one-to-one comparison, he is.<\/p>\n

“But he\u2019s really obvious, you know? It\u2019s easy to point to that, to what he did, and say \u2018that\u2019s evil\u2019 and get everyone to fight it. It\u2019s so much harder to get people to even see the kind of evil that simply \u2026 doesn\u2019t care, and grinds people down every day, day by day. The little sort of evil that \u2026 well, that Stane was. He was only interested in the money, and didn\u2019t care who got hurt in the process.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“United Way.\u00a0 The Task Force for Global Health.\u00a0 Nature Conservancy.\u00a0 Direct Relief.\u00a0 People notice the \u2018small\u2019 things all the time.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not even sure Hammer and Stane qualify as little evil.\u00a0 Stane sold me to terrorists, and engaged in armed combat in a suit of armor in the street, and it took blowing up a building to stop him.\u00a0 Hammer broke Vanko out of prison to prove a point, and gave him all the resources he needed for his romp around the expo.”\u00a0 He glanced around, as if only just noticing that they were still sitting on the floor, but shrugged it off.\u00a0 “I mean, I\u2019m assuming you were there for at least part of that, since you usually handle crowd control and things like that.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I remember,” Summer said softly. “Well, the expo, anyway. I wasn’t involved at all before that. Not with you.” She paused, mouth working. “I’m not explaining myself clearly. I don’t know how to say this better. Different. Argh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: “Somehow I\u2019m not sure the people who worked for him would agree with you,” she mused. “There\u2019s a difference between small, whiney, everyday evil and the sort of huge overarching thing that,” she swallowed hard, “Thanos is.” She contemplated the floor for a moment. “And it sounds really simple to say that he\u2019s … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}