Look, it was complicated! And confusing. Even for Kathy.
"Even if I'd gotten to Josh sooner, he would have made me wait, because we thought we had more time. That's a clear and direct line of causality," she said slowly, trying to make sense of it in her own mind. "But I didn't even try to convince my family to leave. It's like asingk, 'What would have changed if.' What would have changed if I'd gotten to Josh in three minutes instead of forty? Nothing, other than more people would have died. But what would have changed if I got my family out in time? They would have lived and so would I. What would have changed if I'd just stayed on the island? I never would have died, Raven never would have been trapped. See?"
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Date: 2017-02-18 01:48 am (UTC)Look, it was complicated! And confusing. Even for Kathy.
"Even if I'd gotten to Josh sooner, he would have made me wait, because we thought we had more time. That's a clear and direct line of causality," she said slowly, trying to make sense of it in her own mind. "But I didn't even try to convince my family to leave. It's like asingk, 'What would have changed if.' What would have changed if I'd gotten to Josh in three minutes instead of forty? Nothing, other than more people would have died. But what would have changed if I got my family out in time? They would have lived and so would I. What would have changed if I'd just stayed on the island? I never would have died, Raven never would have been trapped. See?"