Taylor's opinion was that she didn't want to be signed up for the Wards and she didn't want to be sent to Boston. She is signed up for the Wards and sent to Boston, because she's a minor. If her opinion carried any legal.weight, she would still be in Brocton Bay, and not affiliated with the PRT at all.
Unless emancipated, no minor gets to make the sort of decisions it requires being an adult to make solely of their own accord. Please exercise at least a modicum of common sense and rational thought.
Were her opinion to not matter, she would be a full Ward. Full stop. End of line. As explicitly outlined in the narrative, identically to real life foster children, there are legal requirements as to what the guardian must provide their charge. Simply because she is a parahuman does not void this, it in point of fact ensures it. All it changes is whom may have custody of her, at least until the PRT makes a pattern of proving they have absolutely no interest whatsoever in following the law and she is removed from their custody.
As her opinion actually does matter, they cannot force her to go into testing and become a full Ward. If you've actually paid any attention whatsoever to the story, you'd notice that they in fact have not actually attempted such, and have only attempted to try and convince her to change her mind.
This is both because her opinion is the only one that matters, and because they have no legal grounds with which to compel her otherwise thus far.
But please, dance around the entire issue of her being their charge and not property again by pretending kids can prevent the realities of life like having to move for a job or family or natural disasters.
In Ontario, you need a PE credit to graduate high school. They strongly reccommend that that credit be grade 9 PE. They assume it will be grade 9 PE. If you don't sign up for it, they will sign you up for it anyways. They will even tell you that grade 9 PE is a mandatory credit, unless you press them. This happened to me, but I eventually got them to let me take a different PE credit. Hiwever, I'm sure the overwhelming majority of students get stuck in grade 9 PE.
As for the ID, Phase is explicitly a temporary, placeholder name, until she goes through power testing. Getting a permanent ID without a permanent name is a system that is properly set up. Frankly, what is more questionable is that they are introducing her to the public as Phase, which may have to change if she ever goes through power testing.
If you had brought up a biosecurity system that failed to account for those with nonstandard irises or fingerprints, you might have actually gone on a relevant tangent. Even though that'd still be one proving you wrong.
Since it is incomparable to the willful choice to disregard the potential that, given it is written right into the provisional outline of the program it be entirely optional, future recruits would elect to forego joining the goose-stepping club and instead merely take advantage of what they are legally required to provide, no, the system is not properly set up. Because a properly set up system acknowledges that one size fits all is a setting that does not exist.
"I read my damn contract and the rules on the train down here. You can't force me to go through power testing. But until I go through power testing, I'm only a Ward on paper. No costume, no name, no patrols, nothing. You can't even make me do PR events, thanks to Youth Guard regulations."
Funny, but I don't see Taylor mentioning no ID and thus the ability to do anything at all. She's in the program, she warrants the same treatment. Stop being obtuse.
Okay, I have a higher tolerance for pedantry than most, but this takes splitting hairs to a whole new level. "Stubborn" is entirely apppropriate to describe 'perseverant in the face of ignominy.'
It's not splitting hairs in the least. It's paying actual attention to nuance and context, some of the most important aspects of language, particularly the written medium.
Of the five websites I looked at definitions of stubborn for at, the totals are thusly; Negative, positive, neutral, negative, neutral. The second is: Negative, positive, negative, negative, neutral. The third is: Negative, positive. The fourth, negative. The fifth, negative, negative. Zero of persevere's eight definitions from the same sites are negative. Making your selection rather specious.
Additionally, if you regard her behavior in that vein as positive, absolutely nothing you've typed indicates such.
