Respectfully, soldier, I can half agree, but only half. War is not a clean or a tidy thing, but it can be ... purer, or less pure.

As a scout, much of my work flies in the face of conventional honor. I am fast, and quiet, but fragile; if I fight straight, I most often lose. Therefore, I do not fight straight. My explosives detonating your squad mate at a crucial point, then my nova knife in your spine when you try to succeed where he failed, is the essence of my work.

Honor, there, consists in faithfully doing what I must to fulfill my contract.

The difference in "purity" is exemplified by two current, basic options in SMG construction rights: the 'Syndicate' SMG and the 'Toxin.'

Either of the two is equally priced, equally effective, and requires equivalent dropsuit resources for support. The differences are: paint job (Syndicate in red, Toxin in green), history, and special payload.

The Syndicate is historically a criminal's weapon, yet I would describe it as far the more "pure." The Toxin, you see, fires slugs doped to turn your blood-borne nanites against you. This may be intended to disable clone soldiers more effectively, but since the burst that pierces dropsuit armor ordinarily produces a mortal wound anyway, the net effect is mere suffering.

Have you ever found yourself thrashing in agony after an SMG burst pierces your armor, horribly aware of your slowly liquefying organs? That is the Toxin at work.

I have neither room nor patience for the sort of honor that will stand in the way of me doing my job, but, if I kill you, soldier, it will be as cleanly as my methods have room for. It's nothing personal; you are simply in my way. I have no special reason to make you suffer for that-- only to remove you as an obstacle.

That is my sense, at least, of where honor lies in our line of work.

Well I cannot fathom such a vision. I am assault. Equivalent to the old stories of old earth, the warrior who travels to many lands fighting for his people.

Of course Scouts have no honor. How can they understand such when they don't even walk the path of a warrior? They are merely scouts who infiltrate, morals and code is something that can decrease their combat effectiveness.

I am on the frontline. An assault. You know exactly what you're dealing with when you see me. I have no time for false stories or facades that only serve to quicken my immediate goals.

So of course you wouldn't understand my self chosen duty and honor. I care none the less.

A virus has no purpose if it has no victims.

Don't anger them????

Don't be such a fool. I am a kind man, but I am not a weak man. That man chose to speak negatively of my beliefs and you come here to tell me don't bite? Yet they are an understanding people? What hypocrites! What's is your bloodline? Who are you to mediate?

Let me first start off by saying I am a passionate loyal patriot to Caldari and my bloodline. That's not an excuse, it's an acknowledgement. If you understand those who believe in honor, then you should understand why I felt your words insulted me. And insulted is even a strong word that I wouldn't use to describe it. It seems as if you were perplexed by the complexity of it all, which is ironic considering that most people consider me being so loyal to Caldari because of my bloodline, a complexity in itself.

I didn't rely on insults of your origins until I began feeling my belief was being attacked. Several mercenaries had shared their two ISK on the matter and the sentiment were the same from the opposing argument. There's no honor in the work we do. Yet my answer remained the same, that I do have honor in the work I do. That's is where it all broke down. You cannot convince me nor anyone else to think differently. So as you persisted to prod my beliefs, I increasingly grew tired of it.

I have grown to experience many harsh realities. Harsh realities and often comments of utter disdain for being a Caldari and for having my bloodline. Disdain for our methods. Our beliefs. Our will. Just look and listen. Hear them speak softly with whispers with words that wishes death upon the Caldari.

I understand what you're trying to do but that's where our communication breaks down. I am true to my Caldari way. I am stern and stubborn. Nothing you can say or do change my beliefs until I, myself, come to the epiphany.

I am more than open to set aside these differences and come to the a conclusion that we feel differently.

Take no offense to these words but realize the truth, you wish to detach people from their faiths/beliefs yet wanting those to respect your belief as the absolute.

What gives you the right? It is unfair to the person that you impose this upon. Think on that. Think of the Amarr who enslaved the Minmatar. Ask the Amarr, and they will tell you it was the will of God, the reclaiming. To bring light into darkness. Ask the Minmatar of the reasoning and they would say control, to use their people as workers and soldiers of their empire.

So in closing, I harbor no ill will.