Function (2) - Anonymous Text / Action for Violet City

[ladywithnovoice]

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What do you think is worse:

Someone who hurts other people for their own selfish reasons and admits it?

Or

Someone who hurts other people but says it's for a good cause?


- Starly

Action/

[It's been a long treck to get here, and one can find Red by Sprout Tower just sitting by the water and tossing bread out to the local Duckletts. Two Growlithe and an Electrike are napping around her. They've just finished a long journey so they're allowed to relax.]

[It's a rather peaceful scene, if you can ignore the Kricketot that might suddenly run up to you with its antennae clicking together.]

Comments

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[soundmind]

I'm not sure...that sounds like a question that you should have a definite answer to and I don't think there is one. There's people that do horrible selfish things but think it's worthwhile to do, and there's people that do things that are "bad" for good to come in the first place.

Like at the Academy, we destroy targets that were once human, but only so they don't hurt anybody and...they've lost their humanity.

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[ladywithnovoice]

Sounds scary.

How do you know for sure that some "bad" things are done for "good"? Sometimes you just have someone's word that it's for the best.

[text]

[soundmind]

That's right, it *is* scary, and all you have is your trust in that person. That's why you have to have courage, take a chance, follow your own path no matter what happens. That's all you can do.

[text]

[ladywithnovoice]

What happens if they betray you? That's a chance, right?

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[soundmind]

Of course there is. I can't pretend I haven't been betrayed, and I can't pretend that I wouldn't kill the person that did it either, she took away someone very important to me. But you can't learn anything if you don't do anything, can you?

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[ladywithnovoice]

No. You can't.

Has there been anyone you haven't wanted to kill, but still find what they did unforgivable?

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[soundmind]

Yeah...my dad. I don't know if I can ever forgive him cheating on my mom, but I can learn to accept it, I guess.

[Big maybe on that.]

I don't think it sounds anything like your question, though. He knows what he does is wrong, but he says that he loves me and he can't help it and all kinds of other lame excuses.

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[ladywithnovoice]

Sorry if I'm bringing up a sore subject.

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[soundmind]

It's okay! I'm tougher than I look, and I've had a while to think about it, so it's not like I'm going to start crying. I just don't know if I'm answering your question in a good way, that's all.

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[ladywithnovoice]

I'm just trying to figure out some things.

Sometimes it feels like you should hate a person with everything you have, but then you see them at their lowest and it doesn't feel like it would do anything, not even for your own satisfaction.