miavi. un: gesneriana. anon.

[anguium]

I've always said there's no escaping the past, but this isn't exactly what I meant.

Were I a younger man, I think I might have tried to make a life here. As it stands now I just want to get home.

I've a question, however: is the registry being used to perhaps reunite those that may not find each other otherwise or is it simply a tracking mechanism? I personally don't need that sort of service but with the state of things it seems important to allow people familiarity.

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[contumelies]

I can sympathise with their situation. It would be jarring for anyone to be taken from their own world and placed into another so inherently different from the one they have grown accustomed to.

However, I must inquire of you this: how can they possibly form an unbiased opinion of the Ministry if they defy it from the very beginning? Choosing to put themselves in a position where they are against the law will have already lay down the foundation of where they stand among us, as criminals and fugitives.

They cannot see the potential right and good of the system if they never give it the chance to prove it to them.

[anguium]

Try not to think of it as defiance. On their end it isn't: it's due caution and self-preservation. It's all well and good for someone to say that they should just give this Ministry a chance, but if there is something wrong then they've already shackled themselves to it.

It's a difficult situation for everyone involved. I understand the stance of the citizens here that worry after the motives of the people that arrive, but I also sympathise with those that arrive that can't bring themselves to trust a Ministry they have no experience with.

It's a rock and a hard place situation on both sides, I think. No one wins, and it's a matter of trying to make it as painless as possible. Abiding by the law is a necessity of course, it's just that so many of these people are used to the laws being used to harm them.