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Insisting Containment is Unethical Hurts Anomalies, Not the Foundation

Posted: Friday, October 25th, 2024 09:09 | Author: Jasper ███████

Category: Opinion/Discussion | Topic(s): North Carolina State Law, Human(oid) Containment

On Tuesday, House Representative Moria Lucas (I-NC) proposed a bill which, if made into law, would require the Foundation to release human anomalies from custody if a given anomaly had not experienced in the past six months a flareup of any effects which would violate NC law if taking place in public1. Understandably, this attracted the attention of several anomalous peoples' rights organizations and reporting agencies — including but not limited to the Serpent's Hand and anti-Foundation legal firm Leeward & Warner Legal Solutions, as well as Information Breach Publications — who were quick to voice their support for the Representative's bill.

I am a Type E Class II Scranton-Type Human Anomaly; put simply, that means reality doesn't function correctly around me, and the 'Type E' part indicates that I have no control over when or how the effects occur. With November just around the corner and every candidate for any party factoring their stance on the Foundation into their campaigns, I find it a pressing matter to explain why forcing the Foundation to follow an external government's delegations for containment is a dangerous idea.

89% of my effects can be countered with a specific type of technology — a Scranton Reality Anchor — and empirically tracked using a unit called a Hume. (The other 11% of my effects aren't understood by the Foundation nor I — and nor were they by my second cousin on my mom's side, who was the only other person in my family to ever experience said effects.)

It is only by result of this equipment that I am not in danger on any given day; I did not always have these effects, and if Foundation personnel had not been present the day they first manifested, I and several (more) other people would be dead. If the equipment in question were not fixed in an array that completely surrounds me when I am in my chamber (one device is connected to a grid which is inlaid in the walls, floor, and ceiling), there's a good chance I could fall straight through the solid material of the ground for a few hundred meters and rematerialize in the same physical space as the bedrock, or create a localized spatial anomaly "less real" than the surrounding room and get trapped inside of it long enough to starve because time progresses 400 times slower inside of it, or experience any number of other dangerous issues. (Both of those examples are true and happened to anomalous civilians in 2022 and 2023 respectively; Type E reality benders are the second-most-common type of human anomaly, so none of this should be news to the politicians that claim to be knowledgeable about such issues.)

Despite all this, I have not experienced a flareup of my effects in more than six months. Thus, Representative Moria Lucas would want me living on a residential street, because she does not comprehend what containment actually is or what purpose it serves for someone like me. I haven't had a flareup because Foundation personnel are doing their jobs — and they need to keep doing them in order to continue my safety. Containment is not a temporary procedure that fixes all of someone's problems. It is not a treatment, it is an ongoing scientific challenge; the personnel designing the procedures are not doctors, but something closer to engineers; Site-42 is not a hospital nor a prison, it is just a facility designed to accommodate me and people and things like me as safely as possible, because the world outside can't accommodate me. To the Foundation, I am someone affected by forces out of my control, and their goal is to help me live as normally as I can in the environment demanded by my circumstances.

If made into law, this legislature would override both the Foundation's wishes and mine; as the anomalous person, the government would not allow me to stay, even if that were what I wanted. According to Rep. Lucas, the reasoning behind this is the notion that a contained human anomaly's environment and heavily regulated lifestyle prevent them from being able to discern what is best for them. While even the Ethics Committee recognizes this line of reasoning and shares those concerns (albeit applied to different issues), I question how Lucas could encourage government intervention in good faith. What reason has American government given me to trust them over the Foundation? Who is objectively more knowledgeable about how to help me?

And lastly: I find disturbing the lack of attention given by media or politicians to nearly any anomalous intervention organizations other than the Foundation. If I were forced to live offsite, I would immediately be at risk of kidnapping, assassination, violence or assault, and all of the above or more at the hands of groups like the Chaos Insurgency, Global Occult Coalition, etc. The fact that the suits and cameras only want to focus on the people whose goal is to protect me from the former groups and from my own effects continues to baffle me. And before you call me delusional or whatever, the past five years have not been 100% smooth sailing; I remember myself falling for the "they're brainwashing you" shit only a couple years ago and putting up a fight with them about every single thing. Looking back, there wasn't one time they weren't willing to put up with my shit, and hindsight is 20/20.

—Jasper ███████ (SCP-████)

Initial Containment Date May ██ 2019

This statement is available on the International SCP Foundation Network's public forums under the 2024 Open Communications Program, a Region I Southern US Sites initiative, following review by the Ethics Subcommittee for Sentient and Sapient Anomalies. This post has not been edited, with the exception of removing the original author's identifying information. The opinions expressed in this post reflect the original author's alone and do not necessitate a consensus of opinion among SCP Foundation personnel and/or contained entities.

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10/25/24 09:19 Anonymous in Beaufort NC USA wrote:

oh honey

10/25/24 09:21 Anonymous in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

Can OP read our comments or…?

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10/25/24 09:23 Anonymous in Durham NC USA wrote:

Good point. I'd guess not?

10/25/24 09:28 Blanchard01 in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

OP does not have an IntSCPFN account (their post was made by the interviewer) but will be shown the answers when or if they ask.

10/25/24 09:32 Anonymous in Columbia SC USA wrote:

*slaps a disclaimer on it* now it will sound real

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10/25/24 09:36 ElaineStarckEC in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

We recognize that we cannot prove they said any of that, but they wished it to be said nonetheless, and allowing public statements from sapient anomalies in a safe and moderated context is part of the 2024 Open Communications Program.

10/25/24 09:39 Anonymous in New York City NY USA wrote:

^ b u r e a u c r a t s p o t t e d ^

10/25/24 09:40 Rogers404 in Site-81 IN USA wrote:

I can't say I understand the necessity of this…

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10/25/24 09:44 Trauss51174 in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

It may not be necessary. It's a glance at their perspective regardless.

10/25/24 09:42 KellyWess (Verified) in Washington DC USA wrote:

The viewpoint of people like OP is more important than ever in this day and age. While I disagree with a majority of the Foundation's actions, I appreciate them openly allowing flow of information like this. Containment should be optional.

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10/25/24 09:43 Anonymous in Los Angeles CA USA wrote:

Optional? So if someone, say, sets shit on fire with their mind all the time and can't control when it happens, they should just get to choose to live out in public wreaking havoc?

10/25/24 09:45 Anonymous in San Francisco CA USA wrote:

If this really is Kelly Wesson the Congresswoman, why haven't you proposed a bill for it yet, if that's what you believe in? Could it be because you're just saying shit to get voted in for another term…? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 gee I wonder

10/25/24 09:46 Anonymous in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

@anon its not as simple as "just make a bill" lmao

10/25/24 09:50 Anon938912 in Seabreeze NC USA wrote:

so this person lives in 42, less than a mile from my house. Weird to think about

10/25/24 09:57 JamieCornings in Bloomington IN USA wrote:

The media doesn't pay attention to anyone other than the SCP Foundation because the SCP Foundation fucked up the most shit in the past ten years, that's why.

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10/25/24 09:59 M45 in Winston-Salem NC USA wrote:

u know the employees never take bait like that on these forums right

10/25/24 10:01 eyeofthestorm in Charlottesville VA USA wrote:

@M45 i doubt that was bait, just a (accurate) statement he was makng

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10/25/24 10:08 northwest2 in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

This is so fucking sad to me because this is one of the ones they treated well who is never even going to be aware of shit like 231, who is never even going to know about all the nasty shit they do to other skips and who is just going to get old and die in a concrete box and think they were given a good life (and this type of comment is why they're not letting OP look at said comments, I'd bet)

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10/25/24 10:10 MarkLark in Chicago IL USA wrote:

Don't they have mind erasing chemicals? they could just show him and then wipe it out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

10/25/24 10:14 Trauss51174 in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

@MarkLark It's biologically unsafe to amnesticize a reality bender in almost all cases. And it would especially be out of the question for a reason like this.

10/25/24 10:16 MarkLark in Chicago IL USA wrote:

In ~almost all~ cases?

10/25/24 10:17 Anonymous in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

pour one out for bootlickers like Trauss who think they're the good guys

10/25/24 10:24 Anonymous in Atlanta GA USA wrote:

This is facts right here. Jasper's received ethical treatment by the Foundation — good for them, but politicians like Lucas aren't thinking about lapdogs like them when they draft these laws, they're thinking about all the people who have been held against their will, experimented on, etc. There do exist anomalous people that want and can control their effects, and the Foundation has taken them too on many occasions; we can't erase those experiences in favor of oh-so-heartwarming perspectives like OP's. This is probably a real anomaly talking in this post, but it's one who's never seen the pre-public-judgement Foundation. (You know, the real Foundation.)

10/25/24 10:26 northwest2 in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

^ THIS

10/25/24 10:20 MorningGlories in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

How many human SCPs are in Site-42? This isn't the same one from that Information Breach story about the scandal, is it…?

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10/25/24 10:29 MarkLark in Chicago IL USA wrote:

OOF, now that would really be the icing on the cake…

10/25/24 10:37 LouAA in Bethesda MD USA wrote:

?? Does anybody know what MG is talking about?

10/25/24 10:39 KappaKC in Washington DC USA wrote:

@LouAA yep pretty sure I know what situation theyre referring to. Information Breach did a piece on it here (warning for nsfw topics in that article)

10/25/24 10:45 LouAA in Bethesda MD USA wrote:

Oh. OH. Oh, what a can of worms.

10/25/24 10:50 KappaKC in Washington DC USA wrote:

Yyyyyep.

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10/25/24 11:00 KappaKC in Washington DC USA wrote:

@anon they have every right to have an opinion on this shit, and all of that happened two years ago. That is, if it's even them, I mean they did say they're one of the most common types of human SCP, so it may not even be them

10/25/24 10:40 Anonymous in Nashville TN USA wrote:

u pay rent bro ?

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10/25/24 10:41 Anonymous in New York City NY USA wrote:

he pays no rent and in return he gets no life

i mean for real, unless i'm missing something here, the scp is saying that he can't even leave his room without experiencing anomalous shit that could hurt him. so do i gather that this guy hasn't even breathed fresh air in 5 year??

10/25/24 10:47 Trauss51174 in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

@NYC anon, I've been assigned to *them a few times before. Their effects are exacerbated by panic and stress symptoms — particularly the 11% we don't understand that they talked about in that post — but are otherwise manageable so long as the ambient Hume level immediately around their person is stabilized to close to baseline, which is within the capabilities of a portable SRA. Thus, it's entirely possible to walk outside with them for a short period of time, and we do this whenever they ask for it. They're opposed to permanently leaving because using a portable anchor is not foolproof and definitely needs one of us close by in case something goes wrong.

10/25/24 10:50 Anonymous in Nashville TN USA wrote:

@Trauss51174 pls use english for my stupid civilian brain

10/25/24 10:55 Anonymous in New York City NY USA wrote:

@Trauss51174 If the containment equipment is embedded in the walls, why can't you embed it in the walls of a normal house on the street?

10/25/24 11:00 ElaineStarckEC in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

Anonymous from New York, this is something we hope to make possible in the near future, both for this anomaly and others like them. Currently, the 11% unpredictability is a barrier to safely containing them offsite; were there to be an accident, neither Jasper nor we would want it to occur around civilians rather than within a facility that is designed to withstand anomalous events.

10/25/24 11:16 Anonymous in San Francisco CA USA wrote:

comments are becoming a trainwreck

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10/25/24 11:21 LouAA in Bethesda MD USA wrote:

I've seen worse on here

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10/25/24 11:20 Anonymous in Raleigh NC USA wrote:

bad post OP

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10/25/24 11:20 Anonym5 in Portland OR USA wrote:

It's not fake. They would have literally no reason to fake it.

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10/25/24 11:21 Anonymous in Denver CO USA wrote:

"voting time is coming up so here's my platform"

"they would have no reason to fake it"

10/25/24 11:28 Anonymous in Wilmington NC USA wrote:

Yeah, the timing is definitely suspicious.

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10/25/24 11:35 KappaKC in Washington DC USA wrote:

@Kentucky anon no, there's no reason to argue that… Jasper is clearly sapient and capable of self-awareness. To indicate otherwise is an insult to their intelligence. They've had five years of experiences and they want to share what they've concluded from those experiences, they are not in the wrong for "getting political" when the politics in question affect them personally. that said I can see how the whole post sounds fake/too good to be true — and if we even have to question if it's real, well, that proves a point in and of itself…

10/25/24 11:37 Anonymous in Leland NC USA wrote:

The number of people suggesting that Jasper somehow isn't allowed to have a pro-Foundation opinion speaks volumes louder than any censorship of anomalous people the Foundation may be perpetuating. This is their life. Listen to them about it.

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10/25/24 11:38 Crowns433 (Moderator) in Site-42 NC USA wrote:

Okay, this is getting off-topic. While the driving influence behind the 2024 Open Communications Program is accessible information, personal identifying information was left out of that post for the anomaly's safety, and insistence that said details should be disclosed in order to prove the individual's legitimacy is not acceptable. Furthermore, the Foundation does not and cannot publicly endorse nor speak ill of election candidates; the opinions in this thread's opening post are the anomaly's alone. The anomaly's assigned personnel will log this and show them a relevant and appropriate selection of responses, as was intended; thank you for your engagement and interest, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

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Footnotes

1. “effects which are both uncontrollable and unpredictable and have the potential to affect physical objects, physical laws, and/or living organisms within a reasonably close range of the effect’s source” (NC APP 4-C6-NC ¶A)