"If I hear one more of you sniveling pukes whining about how you live 'on the edge', I'm going to take make it my personal mission in life to educate you. Living on the edge? You live in a city with anything you could need readily available for the taking. You probably have at least some sort of place you can sack out at without worrying about some gonk trying to slide six inches of steel into your gut just because you're not the same nationality. Hell, some of you probably even have transportation to get yourself around the city to a decent eatery where you might even get real food if you want.
"That's not living on the edge. Wait til you wake up in the morning to the staccato sound of machine gun fire, spend your day dodging bullets and staying out of the way of high explosives, lull yourself to sleep with the popping sound of incoming mortar fire. And if you're lucky, you managed to get in a couple bites of combat rationed soy protein that you've managed flavor up with a few tasty insects. If you're really lucky, you might even manage a little bit of extra water to wash off the brain matter that your friend left on your uniform when he took a round to the noggin from a sniper.
"You little shadowrunner pukes aren't living on the edge. In comparison, you're living at a Malibu beach house with bikini clad Playboy Bunnies.
"Living on the edge is taking a round to the gut and being afraid to want water because everyone you've ever seen dying a slow death has always moaned for it. Or maybe that piece of shrapnel you took in the arm is pussing up because the closest thing you've got to medical care is a hot knife and a team mate who's not so jacked up on Long Haul and amphetamines that his hands are shaking. Living on the edge is laying out in the bush not wanting to sleep because you know those little bastards could be sneaking up on you any second to slit your throat and then racking up to try and cover twelve kilometers in twelve hours in the hopes that you can make it back to the relative safety of the firebase and maybe get some hot soy protein instead of eating it cold where it's got the consistency of play-doh.
"So quit whining, get your ass up, and get back to the fight, you little maggot!"
