Chapter Seventy Two:: Internal Forum

"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal.

And what we have before us are the rich

feasts that conscience cannot appreciate

and mortal men cannot know without

regret. God kills, and so are we;

for no creatures under God are as we are,

none so like Him as ourselves,

dark angels not confined to the stinking

limits of hell but wandering His earth

and all its kingdoms."

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

There was a controversy arising about the future of urban legends during those times, as it was the priority concern of the Parallelogram Office at the onset of the existential crisis commencing with noticable fear and agitation. As much as the topic is taboo and easily avoided for fear of being associated to the curse that was circulating at that time about the true nature of these urban stories, many of whom, in reality, have simply feared for their own personal welfare. Some say that these ghosts are not to be trusted for their intrinsic deficiency in "material substance," and therefore, lacks the necessary characteristic to answer to the temporal call of discipline or accountability, while others simply dismiss the issue outright for being too demonized, biased, or trivial.

Monsters are evil, period. That is the prevailing opinion at that time. And evil is ultimately translated as a form of "bad luck."

For some, the prevailing precepts of the Villain Theory lacks the "necessary teeth" to accurately classify characterizations as they truly are, because current rules have prevented the parallelogram movement from arriving at the definite identification because of the excessive use of the adjudication rhetoric that ultimately doesn't make sense and not only delays the process altogether, but deliberately sabotages the entire system for the same original purposes it was so enacted.

"They argue unnecessarily as if everything was a question of interpretation rather than identifying a matter as a simple admission of the facts," some experts who speak passionately about the matter has repeatedly said.

More outspoken messages further ensued as the great debate deepens in complexity:

"Did they meet the criteria or not? Did they follow the codified rules or not? What is there for them to argue?"

"But the Parallelogram Office is a convention of rules and not a court of infraction!" some of the recorded dissents boldly admitted.

As opinions on the matter become more diverse and radical, there was an attempt to finally call for the Parallelogram Office to convene an Assembly of Academics (to be sponsored by the main forces of the parallelogram movement) to finally settle the issue once and for all, but the more participants tried to rectified a system of rubrics that is so cunningly employed, the more the urban legends have been put into a rather discriminated or altered state of fallacious premises of equivocation.

"We need to determine the true nature of something before we can make a judgment," a Unicorn once said in a session of the plenary debate. "The system calls for the admission of facts but these purported facts must also be verified if the representation it manifests to contain actually represents what the substantive measure of the rules require. It is not a mere question of interpretation of the statutes, but one of investigation."

The peace-loving Cyborgs have, for so long, avoided the issue for political reasons and has not said anything concrete on center stage, but their silence has proven to be fatal in the many years to come. While their wisdom was urgently needed, they were all missing in action.

But this is how exactly Satan does his business.

To further recall one of the most impactful speeches made altogether:

"I will argue for the protection of every characterization governed by this movement to be free from any form of literary bias without the proper determination of the admissibility of facts and, as full-pledged Unicorns, we cannot allow anybody to simply diminish the value of the Villain Theory as much as the Delegates of this Assembly has opposed any amendments to the Heroic Deeds. I will therefore invoke internal forum regarding this case and refuse to accede to the proposed changes. Monsters are monsters, and there is no doubt to the common nature of its consequences."

There was a loud boo from the audience.

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