On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:11:03 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>Pete B wrote:
>> dtravel@sonic.net says...
>>> Dragon Lady wrote:
>>>> "trag" <trag@io.com> wrote
>>>>> On Nov 21, 10:13 pm, Fallen <fal...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get just the opposite read on the characters. Rush is their best hope
>>>>>> and he's being treated like an inconvenience, I'd be pissed if I was him
>>>>>> too.
>>>>> Rush is a bloody kidnapper and murdered and he should be grateful that
>>>>> the rest of the strandees don't torture him to death.
>>>> Ok, what'd I miss. I don't recall him kidnapping or murdering anyone.
>>>>
>>> The initial aborting dialing home and instead dialing some unknown
>>> 9-chevron gate address without a clue where it leads to and forcing
>>> everyone to either go thru or die was kidnapping. All the deaths that
>>> follow from that are therefore murder.
>>
>> Nonsense. He had no obligation to save anyone, he opened a door - and it
>> was up to them to follow or not. The chose to go thorugh. Their choice.
>
>If someone places a gun to your head and I block the door to safety and
>tell you "go thru this other door marked "DANGER, DO NOT ENTER" or he'll
>shoot you", am I a co-conspirator in a kidnapping or not?
maybe. But, that isn't what happened.
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