Men Against Fire

Black Mirror 3×5

& Medina: Cross on the wall there. You got principles. Think all life is sacred. And I get it. I agree. All life is sacred so... you even got to protect the roaches. Right?
    It’s not their fault they’re like that. They didn’t ask for this. I get it. We get it. There’s shit in their blood that made them that way. The sickness they’re carrying. They doesn’t care about the sanctity of life or the pain about who else is gonna suffer.
    We don’t stop the roaches, in five, ten, 20 years from now, you’re still gonna get kids born that way, and then they’re gonna breed. Bingo. And so it goes on. That cycle of pain. That sickness, and it could have been avoided.
    Every roach you save today, you condemn God knows how many people to despair and misery tomorrow. You can’t still see them as human. Understandable sentiment, granted, but it’s misguided. We gotta take them out if humankind is gonna carry on in this world. That’s just the hard truth. Gotta make sacrifices.

& Arquette: Let’s get you a good sleep tonight, huh? A real good sleep.

& Catarina: Everybody hates us.
    Stripe: Well, what the fuck do they see? Huh? The fucking civs, when they look at a roach, what do they see?
    Catarina: What you see now. They hate all the same because it’s what they’ve been told.

& Catarina: Ten years ago, it began... First, the screening programme, the DNA checks, then the register, the emergency measures. And soon everyone calls us creatures. Filthy creatures. Every voice. The TV. The computer. Say we have... we have sickness in us. We have weakness. It’s in our blood. They say that our blood cannot go on. That we cannot go on.

& Stripe: The whole thing is a lie... Roaches. They look just like us.
    Arquette: Of course they do. That’s why they’re so dangerous.

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& Arquette: Humans. You know, we give ourselves a bad rap, but we’re genuinely empathetic as a species. I mean, we don’t actually really want to kill each other. ....
    Many years ago, I’m talking early 20th century, most soldiers didn’t even fire their weapons. Or if they did, they would just aim over the heads of the enemies. They did it on purpose.
    British Army. World War I. The brigadier, he’d walk the line with a stick and he’d whack his men in order to get them to shoot.
    Even in World War II, in a firefight, only 15%, 20% of the men would pull the trigger. The fate of the world at stake and only 15% of them fired.
    Now what does that tell you? It tells me that that war would have been over a whole lot quicker had the military got its shit together. So we adapted. Better training. Better conditioning.
    Then comes the Vietnam War, and the shooting percentage goes up to 85. Lot of bullets flying. The kills were still low. Plus the guys who did get a kill, well, most of them came back all messed up in the head.

& Arquette: It’s a lot easier to pull the trigger when you’re aiming at the bogeyman, hmm?

& Arquette: Do you have any idea the amount of shit that’s in their DNA? Higher rates of cancer. Muscular dystrophy. MS. SLS. Substandard IQ. Criminal tendencies. Sexual deviances... It’s all there.

& Arquette: You’ll see and smell and feel it all... On a loop? In a cell all alone? Is this what you want?

& Arquette: Just say the word, Stripe. And it all goes away. Just say the word.

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