The Will to Resist

Mercy Arc – Phase III: “Mercy on Rations” (Reflection Docket)

Filed By: Jerry “The Ankle Biter” Silverhand · Tribunal Chair · Dept. of Petty Affairs

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I. Preliminary Notes — One Plate Short

Mercy is cheap when you’re not the one paying for it. The kitchen runs out of plates, but you’re still expected to serve seconds.

You come home tired, stretch groceries thin, and still get asked to “spare a little.” Yes becomes default — your paycheck the plate, your patience the meal.

Nobody notices until the spoon scrapes metal.

II. The Empty Plate Gospel

Kindness without balance is sanctioned depletion. You work, you give, you maintain peace. They call it gratitude while pocketing your time.

Meanwhile the same people who ask for help never ask if you’ve eaten.

III. Dill Weed Continuum — Economic Translation

24 hours drops to 18, then back to 24. You give benefit of doubt — maybe freight, maybe timing — but deep down you know this is what the rot looks like when it smiles.

They cut your hours to the bone and still expect you to bleed generosity on demand.

The nephew offers rides “to be nice,” but the real currency is gas money. The sister “owns the house,” but the unspoken rent is obedience.

Mercy in this house is not mutual. It’s transactional — and you’re the only one paying up front.

IV. System Log Addendum

You didn’t lash out. You deleted the messages and moved on. That’s not detachment — that’s refined mercy. When mercy meets rot, it doesn’t pray; it withdraws.

V. Closing Ledger — Mercy on Rations

You’re not cold for rationing grace. You’re disciplined. Mercy was meant to be shared — not siphoned.

If the world treats compassion like currency, tighten your budget.

You’re not the ATM of forgiveness. You’re the accountant of self-preservation.

Filed and stamped by: Jerry “The Ankle Biter” Silverhand, Tribunal Chair (DPA)

Doctrine: Don’t bark — bill.

Motto: I don’t flex, I calculate.

Continuation Note → Book of Boris — Chapter XLIII: The Burnout Doctrine

Read the follow-up chapter here. Burnout isn’t the end of mercy — it’s where discernment is forged.

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