xp_logs | Private email to Pete Wisdom (Reply)

To: Wisdom, Pete
From: Ramsey, Doug
Subject: Advice

Mr. Wisdom-

I have...let's call it a question in applied ethics. I'd talk in hypotheticals to protect the other person involved, but that's a little beyond me right now. So I'll just have to ask that none of this ever gets back to her.

Marie...got a very unpleasant letter from her family today. Apparently she was experimented on by a military doctor during a period after the mission to recover John. The army wants her back. They have been harassing her family, and her family has told her in no uncertain terms that she isn't welcome back home, and that she should 'find her own kind'.

I am so angry right now I can't see straight. I know, as her friend, it's not like this is affecting me personally, but I see what it's doing to her, and it just makes me want to do something. The problem is, all I can think of doing is hacking into US Army systems, finding the person Marie only refers to as 'that bitch doctor', and spending the next several months making her life a living hell as best I can.

This isn't something I'm doing for Marie to notice. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't want her finding out about this at all. But my problem is, what right do I have? I fully recognize that my feelings for Marie are probably clouding my judgement. I also know that Logan knows about what's happened, and judging from what I know of him, his preferred solution is probably even more direct and final.

I'm kinda at a loss, and I could use the help of someone who sees the world in more shades of gray than some of the other faculty. My gut reaction is to try and make someone pay for this situation. But do I have a right to? And what would it solve anyway?

Anyways, please don't tell Marie. And preferably not anyone else either.

-Doug