[ Rose did once, right before she pulled him out of the closet and broke up with him. Shane has never known what to think of himself. So he doesn't think about it much. ]
Nothing. There would be no coming back from making a decision like that. Right?
[ He's never sure what to make of hypothetical questions like that one, he's too simple and practical to let his imagination get far. ]
[ He doesn't like where this is going. Something in Shane resists answering at first, like he can sense there's a weight to this suddenly that he doesn't fully understand. That it's about more than just what happened at the meeting a few hours ago.
But he's never been good at working out little signals. So he soldiers on through. ]
I guess we'll see if it happens. It'll be what most people do in the end, I assume. [ Shane doesn't have any great ideals about himself, no picture of himself as a particularly moral person. He's never had to make decisions like what Louis suggests. Not remotely.
But he also can't help being the golden boy. ] That doesn't make it right. Just human.
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What would make you offer people up for death?
[ how does the olympic athlete feel about death penalty? ]
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Nothing. There would be no coming back from making a decision like that. Right?
[ He's never sure what to make of hypothetical questions like that one, he's too simple and practical to let his imagination get far. ]
I don't want to be the reason anyone dies.
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[ he didn't either, but here we are. he's been the reason for decades. ]
But if it was that decision versus your life. If you had to choose.
[ the question is no longer as hypothetical as Shane might like. ]
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But he's never been good at working out little signals. So he soldiers on through. ]
I guess we'll see if it happens. It'll be what most people do in the end, I assume. [ Shane doesn't have any great ideals about himself, no picture of himself as a particularly moral person. He's never had to make decisions like what Louis suggests. Not remotely.
But he also can't help being the golden boy. ] That doesn't make it right. Just human.