Quote Originally Posted by Kc View Post
You might, but how many people follow blind leaders, even in our world now? Imagine you take away all the safety, and bring in a lot of fear. It's easier to survive in a shitty group, than no group at all. Who knows what kinds of things were said and thought of the people of the tower... The mallers could have genuinely believed they came in peace with no other way to survive. When they started to get fired on... it could have been an easy switch in the brain.

"Look, life sucks for all of us out here, can't we just join you? Our place is getting attacked a lot and we're losing people..."

BLAM...

"They're firing at us?! What did we do? These people must not think we're survivors too... they're just stuck on the fact that we were incarcerated. I don't want to go back to that place... we HAVE to get in there. If we don't, I might be next! At least go down fighting..."


There's lot of perspectives to the story that can sometimes get lost, especially through the blur of the folds that are the journals. We see only one side... well, most of the time.
I do understand all that, what I meant is: people HERE listening to the podcast and having received an account of the first encounter with Latch and Scratch STILL thinking it's all Burt's fault for stealing the tanker and not obediently put its gun down and get shot. Can understand why Scratch would think that, I don't understand how can anyone else here in the real world. That was my point.
Regarding the specific example you bring on, I'm sure there was malice in the Mallers, at least at the top management level. The pawns could have been clueless, maybe, although with slaves going around all the time even the dumbest ones must have suspected something was wrong, Mitchell and Webb style...