Re: Londo\'s Three Chances
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>First I don't think it fits this particular situation very well. Second the drunk is not the only one with a choice. The bartender could choose not to serve an individual beyond an unsafe level knowing it could lead to the death of six people. Everyone might disagree but that is my humble opinion.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
How was the bartender supposed to know this? You're assuming the guy looked stumbling drunk. What if he didn't? How do you know that
the same bartender served all the drinks? Let's assume the guy went to six different bars in the evening, had two or three drinks at each, and wasn't slurring his words or acting drunk. Is somebody else still responsible? Even allowing your point, that there might be
shared responsibility, the drunk is still the
primary cause of the accident.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>A drunk driver doesn't go through all of the steps in deciding whether he should drive, what if he hits someone, if someone else might kill that family of six if he isn't out there driving.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
No, but a drunk driver does go through the steps of deciding to drink, to continue drinking when he can feel the affects, and to then drive
knowing that he may be impaired and that an accident
could be the result. He
decides to roll the dice with his own life and that of others.
The someone else killing the family issue is where the analogy doesn't quite fit - but it
is only an analogy, and none is perfect. The
point is that everything that follows in the drunk scenario flows from his decision to get drunk and then to drive. Everything that follows Londo's decision to involve the Shadows flows from his meeting with Morden.
Absent his answer to Morden the Shadows would have moved on and found some other race to be their surrogates. Refa would never have
met Morden, much less used him and his "associates" in an attack on Narn. It is true that another race would probably have committed
other horrors under the influence of the Shadows, but
Londo and the
Centauri would have had clean hands. So that
wouldn't have been Londo's responsibility.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>JMS said not to kill the one who is already dead but as others hae stated, he is known for trying to throw people off. The meaning may not be meant to be taken so literally.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
JMS has said, since the series ended, when there was no longer any reason to keep this point a secret, that Sheridan was "the one" he had in mind. Frankly I don't understand how or why this is even still a topic for debate. Some questions actually
did get answers, after all, both in the series and in JMS's postings.
Regards,
Joe
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Joseph DeMartino
Sigh Corps
Pat Tallman Division
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