>>3487896It's an open forum, my man, no one's disallowing you from speaking. I apologize if you found me curt, but I was not suggesting that was your position, nor that you would object to something so benign. If that was your interpretation, then I will make more of an effort to be clear in the future. Rather, I was directing attention to what I consider the crux of the issue in a purposefully blunt way to illustrate how I consider it to supersede all other factors (hence "in any context"). And since you suggested last Christmas that my opinion of Widow meant I wanted her to die, I'd say we're now even.
Ah, I was unaware, and that is my mistake. The latter option is the most likely, but if you want an in-story reason, I have some theories: by that time, Ana had been a captain in Overwatch for decades and was likely living abroad in various bases and watchpoints. She was probably long out of contact with any friends or connections she had in the Army by then and may not have even been paying her taxes anymore, so they and the Egyptian government in general saw little reason to listen to her. Also, there are likely substantial differences between Overwatch and a conventional military in terms of structure, protocol, and responsibilities, and Ana's experience with both may have influenced her to believe that her daughter was better suited for the latter over the former. Or she saw the writing on the wall herself and didn't want her daughter to enlist in something that she knew had no future.
