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[Lab coat on, it's another general address. Anyone paying attention might note he rarely (deliberately) uses the network for anything personal.]

All non-emergency surgical procedures are officially cancelled until further notice. The hospital can no longer guarantee a non-contaminated operating space. If anyone knows a way to hold the sand back, or of somewhere that's not emulating the Sahara, please get in touch. When I want to go to work in flip-flops I'll open that beach shack.

[He reaches forward to turn off the monitor. Hesitates.]

Oh, and for those of you who weren't taught it when you were three: don't take candy from strangers.


[ooc: he's eaten dozens of the hearts, but he's unlikely to be telling -you- that. His secrets are available in multiples and still open for takers.]

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Even one correctly identified rapist or murderer is enough.

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You realise you could throw a rock and hit one on a good day? The moral majority swings the other way here.

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Statistics or silence, Doctor.

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The rules here have to be different.

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In virtue of convenience, not civic integrity.

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By virtue of your integrity not being the benchmark.

Are you human? I assume so, but you're hiding, which suggests you also don't consider yourself equal.

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I take the precaution of courtesy and the luxury of anonymity. Neither dents my humanity, Doctor.

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[intheblanks]

No. But anonymity's the state in which people are most comfortable flouting moral expectation.

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Insofar as they do not also attach practical effort to it.