How to Provide... Leverage
The moral case for finding help wherever you can, so long as they're honourable.
Everyone needs help some time.
It's why there are whole organizations dedicated to the idea of helping people who are at their worst. Whether it's charities, NGOs, government programs or any number of other places, they are supposed to be there to help. Some even do when the worst of the worst happens, like police and other law enforcement measures. But what do you do when all of those people fail to help? Where do you go when you have nowhere else to turn?
This is what Leverage is about. Providing one final place for people to turn when there isn't anywhere else. When you can't work within the law so you have to go outside of it to make it work. Or at least that's the idea. It might seem like a bad idea to turn to criminals as your last resort, but why wouldn't you if everything else hasn't worked?
Going to just anyone though isn't such a great idea. Most criminals don't help people out of the goodness of their hearts. They aren't in it for the victims and for righting the wrongs of other criminals. So turning to them can make things worse if you aren't careful. But there's a reason why there's such a thing called honour among thieves. Occasionally, there are those rare criminals who aren't in it for the benefit to themselves. Who don't necessarily want to do it out of greed or revenge or whatever motivates someone to become a criminal.
And those are the people you can trust to get you what you want.
Those people can give you the leverage you need to make it through whatever hardships you're dealing with. Because what people who are at the end of their rope don't have is something to balance the scales. Something to get the ones who wronged them to admit what they've done. Either something for them to use or for someone else to use on their behalf. Something so important that those who have harmed others would do anything to get it back.
Only then will the scales finally tip or at least balance out and make things more fair. The thing to remember about having leverage is that once you have it, you might be just as willing to use it for your own ends. To give yourself the power which was denied to you, and there's no guarantee that once you have that power you'd use it any better than the people who hurt you. Which is why you need someone else to do it for you.
Someone whose goal isn't to use that power for their own benefit. Who can walk away and not continue the cycle of destruction you find yourself in because of everything that's happened to you. Perhaps most importantly, someone who can give you the closure you need so that you can move forward with your life.
Leverage is all about providing that type of assistance to people. It's very cathartic in that way.
With the revival now out, you should definitely work your way through it and see what kind of peace you can get from it.
Leverage and its sequel series Leverage: Redemption are now available.
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