Valerie scowled, shaking her head. “You just pointed out the flaw in your own words,” Valerie stated. “For one... most people don’t even believe ghosts exist until they see one. The ones who have, usually they only see the bad ones. And you said it yourself, regardless of what laws are in place, the bad ones are going to come and wreck havoc anyways. Dealing with a ghost criminal isn’t like dealing with a human one. Most humans can’t even defend themselves against a ghost, even the ones who aren’t so bad, assuming there actually are any. Jury’s still out on you.”
“And this?” Valerie held up the book, before opening it up, skimming quickly through the pages. “... This looks like it was mostly written by the Guys in White. I’m pretty sure none of these ‘laws’ were ever put up for vote. I’ve certainly never seen them written anywhere else before.” She looked back up. “You’re going on and on over how ghosts are treated? Let me put things in perspective for you.”
“There’s a lot of ghosts. A ton of them show up in Amity Park alone, and I have no idea how many crop up around the world, but let’s just focus on Amity Park. Do you know how many actual ghost hunters there are in comparison? Like, real ghost hunters?” She snorted. “The Fentons. The Guys in White when they’re actually in town. Me... and Phantom, if you can count another ghost beating up ghosts. But honestly, it’s usually mostly me and Phantom dealing with the majority of the troublemakers.”
“So two to four people against every ghost that comes through that portal the Fentons’ have. Two to four people trying to protect the town from almost daily ghost attacks. Do you really not get it? Do you really not understand why we judge so harshly? We’re outnumbered, fighting against an enemy that really does over power us, trying to protect people who can’t fight back at all! You go on about how humans treat ghosts, conveniently forgetting that the majority of ghosts who come to our world treat humans as even worse!”
“Confirmation bias be damned, if you ghosts really did care about humans at all, if you thought of us as equals, then you’d actually police your own damn kind and prevent those kinds of ghosts from coming over! So don’t you get all high and mighty when we do the only thing we can do to protect ourselves! But no, if these supposed ‘good’ ghosts exist, they’re more than content to let the ‘bad’ ghosts come and treat humans like play-things. Toys to be used until broken and then tossed aside. You ghosts dug your own grave in the way you let your own treat us humans, and instead of building a ladder to get out you all just keep digging yourself deeper while complaining that we should be the ones offering you a hand up.”
“There’s always two sides to every coin, Mr. Ghostwriter,” she said snidely. “You’re so caught up in what injustices you feel, you don’t even consider why we act the way we do. You want to flip this around? How safe would the average human be if they came to the Ghost Zone? I’m not even talking hunters. I’m talking about Joe Schmoe. No weapons. No armor. No nothing. Think about that next time you go on about how dangerous us ghost hunters make it for ghosts to come to the Human World.”
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