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

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[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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[lieutenantantichrist]

I'm not real good at this abstract shit. Let me put it another way, see if I have this right.

Say you've got a guy shooting up a bank. He's grabbed somebody's grandma and yelling that he's going to blow her brains out unless they open up the vault. But he doesn't get the chance, because a police sniper puts a bullet through his head.

You're asking me which one's the asshole here.

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[ladywithnovoice]

[Give her a second, Blake, that's pretty friggin' violent.]

Not quite what I was going for. Sorry.

Try more...

First guy shoots someone because he does want their money and he admits it.

Second guy- not related to what's going on with the first guy- shoots someone and when he's found out, he says that by shooting that person then he's somehow made the world better. He's not a police sniper. This is just something he decided on his own. He can reason it out to you and he obviously believes it, but there's no actual proof that what he's doing will actually make the world better.

[...She's pretty sure that's a closer analogy, at any rate.]

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[lieutenantantichrist]

[Isn't violent murder what everyone's mind immediate goes to for examples?]

Oh. You mean your garden variety nutcase.

Unless the second guy has some actual self-defense to stand on, they're both going away for a long time.

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[ladywithnovoice]

So that sort of thing was normal where you came from? "Garden variety" and all that.

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[lieutenantantichrist]

It doesn't exactly happen every day, but yeah, it happens. Isn't that the kind of thing you were talking about?

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[ladywithnovoice]

What I had in mind wasn't quite that violent.

I got the feeling it's not the kind of thing you really care for in a fun discussion. Still want me to answer more fully?

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[lieutenantantichrist]

Talking about different types of sadistic bastard isn't going to be your light, fun sort of conversation. But, you know what, it happens to be it's kind of been on my mind lately.

So yeah. Give me the full rundown.