Mind you, I'm still going to do everything I can to stall and avoid using them. I'll act incompetent as long as I can possibly get away with it. And maybe after throwing that huge fright into the department last Friday with what he did to me and Deverill, he maybe will think he's made his point and will refrain from tactics like that. For awhile.
I spent a long time discussing what you call option 2 with the people at Moddey Dhoo. Kingsley and Frank talked about what they call 'ethical flowcharts' in the Auror training they underwent, learning to see the sometimes split-second decisions necessary to be made in terms of either/or, with the goal of causing the least amount of harm possible for the greatest amount of gain.
Speaking with Fu Lee was surprisingly helpful, too. The man's an expert at military tactics and strategy, as well as knowledgeable about some Eastern disciplines that might help. He told me about an Eastern martial art called judo, where you use an opponent's weight (usually a tactical advantage in a fight) against them. This dovetailed with what Terry talked to me about: using distraction and subterfuge outsmart your enemy, in order to avoid doing what you don't want to do. An example: Mulciber sent me a message telling me his chair was uncomfortable and ordering me to swap chairs. So I put a hex on my own chair so that it leans to the side if anyone but me sits in it, and I offered him a chair from one of the spare offices. That satisfied him, and I was able to keep my own chair.
In other words, I'll end up doing what I hate a lot less if I can manage to outwit him.
Another reason I don't want to quit is that I want to protect both my coworkers and the people over whom this department has jurisdiction. (He's already asked why we bother feeding parasites like squibs, for example.) If I can get him to like me and trust me, there's a hope I can buffer his worst tendencies.
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Date: 2013-06-30 06:58 pm (UTC)I spent a long time discussing what you call option 2 with the people at Moddey Dhoo. Kingsley and Frank talked about what they call 'ethical flowcharts' in the Auror training they underwent, learning to see the sometimes split-second decisions necessary to be made in terms of either/or, with the goal of causing the least amount of harm possible for the greatest amount of gain.
Speaking with Fu Lee was surprisingly helpful, too. The man's an expert at military tactics and strategy, as well as knowledgeable about some Eastern disciplines that might help. He told me about an Eastern martial art called judo, where you use an opponent's weight (usually a tactical advantage in a fight) against them. This dovetailed with what Terry talked to me about: using distraction and subterfuge outsmart your enemy, in order to avoid doing what you don't want to do. An example: Mulciber sent me a message telling me his chair was uncomfortable and ordering me to swap chairs. So I put a hex on my own chair so that it leans to the side if anyone but me sits in it, and I offered him a chair from one of the spare offices. That satisfied him, and I was able to keep my own chair.
In other words, I'll end up doing what I hate a lot less if I can manage to outwit him.
Another reason I don't want to quit is that I want to protect both my coworkers and the people over whom this department has jurisdiction. (He's already asked why we bother feeding parasites like squibs, for example.) If I can get him to like me and trust me, there's a hope I can buffer his worst tendencies.