ross-wallace:

We’re not producing anything… Ms. Summers, either we are the people who the demon inhabits or we are the demon who inhabits what used to be a person. We can’t be both. So, either we’re some kind of subclass of human—which probably just hurts that steel helmet you call a brain—or a demon is in fact being produced when one vampire sires another. Production happens or we would have been wiped away long ago.

We won’t see eye to eye on morality anytime soon. I think we can leave that aside as a lost cause, though I would care to remind you that no two cultures have ever shared perfect aligned definitions. Many similarities, certainly.

And let’s look at our unnaturally long lives and see here. If allowed to live out in the open, we could actually hold down jobs, become part of the work force. Can you imagine night construction getting done? And we wouldn’t need the harsh florescents that the human night crews need in order to see the job done. There goes a few pennies of electricity. The difference isn’t about who can do more wrong to the planet in the fastest time. The difference is trying to provide for a future. One that you seem very keen on keeping ‘evil’ out of when that evil is so narrowly defined by you.

Your rules for your world, and damn everything else seems to be your motto. How long before you start turning on the evil lurking in your own species and raising your hand against them? Or would you tolerate me if I was human, despite my radical difference of morality? Simply because I don’t have a beating heart, that I don’t believe the same as you, I deserve to die?

You destroy something to create yourself. That’s negative growth if you ask me. But if you’ve decided we’re putting away the argument of right and wrong, then I’m deciding that this one is a lost cause as well.

You expect me to believe that vampires just want to be productive members of society? It’s funny that of the thousands of vampires I’ve found myself being attacked by, not one of them mentioned that. The only future they see is themselves tearing into some piping hot human jugular vein.  I’ve had my fare share of witty banter with vampires. They all seemed to have their sights sent on mass destruction of humankind at large, not coexistence. 

I would never purposefully kill a human being. Unlike vampires, their souls provide them with a chance for rehabilitation no matter how far they’ve fallen. And those that can’t be rehabilitated spend their lives in a prison cell where they aren’t a danger to society. I know you’ll try and bring up the possibility of government run demon prisons to hold the dangerous demons, so let me just address that now.

It’s been done before. It’s been done and it failed. I lived through it. Chips that stop them from being physically able to harm people? Hey, they don’t work either. Lived through that as well. Without a soul, vampires cannot be trusted. I will never trust a word you say. It’s a dangerous thing trusting a vampire. I know.