We have underground bunkers and stuff, because sometimes terrorists and giant robots and stuff attack us. I'm not really sure what part of that you're not getting? Like, are there smaller words I could be using?

[Okay, the pity is going away a bit, because UGH WOW.]

I'm not saying you hate gay people, I'm saying I've seen a lot of people who do, and a lot of people who hate mutants, and trust me -- at the end of the day? It boils down to the same thing. People who think their imaginary right to never feel weirded out is worth more than our right to... What was it in English? "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"

See, those "normal people who might be terrorists"? They're doing something, right? At least ideally. Like buying loads of weapons, or like constantly going to forums about how to, y'know, do terrorist stuff, or like doing a year abroad and coming back with a dead-eyed stare and a weird fixation on mass murderers or something. Saying you want every mutant man, woman, and child on a list, not like that one, but like a registry for violent offenders? That's not a little messed up to you?

Also? You really think they'd stop at just getting our names on a list? Right. You've heard the way that kind of people talk about us, and you honestly think that's not just a first step to them?

There would be more institutionalized discrimination, and there would be people taking things into their own hands. And I'd be super surprised if the government went that far and didn't go further.

Let me ask you two things, ok?

First? Why do you think mutants get involved in so much more violence?

And when you were "kidnapped", what was going on?

[The Old Man doesn't have people kidnapped. Rescued, on the other hand...]