“Jon’s abrasiveness and egotism, as well as his skepticism, directly caused Martin to be attacked by Jane Prentiss and Sasha to be attacked by Timothy Hodge because they were under the belief they needed to give him more concrete evidence in order to keep their jobs.”
Hi. That’s two grown adults. With agency. Who did those things. After work hours.
If Jon is wholly responsible for every choice he made that resulted in the end of the world, despite the manipulation from HIS boss and the Web, they also are wholly responsible for theirs. He didn’t tell them or ask them to do any of that. He didn’t even fucking know what they were going to do. They didn’t inform him and he didn’t give them the go ahead. He was their boss and they might’ve felt like if they didn’t they would’ve been reprimanded, but they did what they did outside of his purview or blessing.
Not only that, but Sasha even assumed Martin was lying or exaggerating what happened. Even with visual evidence. And we have no idea what Martin’s belief level was prior to Jane Prentiss’s attack. Both of them did what they did under the impression it was going to be fine. And Jon, still occluding, wouldn’t have
Fuck off with these double standards. I’m sick of it.