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[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

[ladywithnovoice]

Yeah, I do. You've met the types?

[heartdive]

you can kind of say that, yeah. i don't hold it against them or anything. they're not a bad person, not really.

[ladywithnovoice]

That makes it harder, right? It'd be easier to hate that kind of person for all the harm they do, but then you see them at their weakest and trying to hate them becomes an effort.

[heartdive]

i don't really do the hate thing anyway, but i know what you're saying. and i don't think i could stay upset too much because how do i know i'd be any different if i was them?

[ladywithnovoice]

So you try to see yourself in their shoes?

[heartdive]

i try to, even if it doesn't always work.

[ladywithnovoice]

What has it been like when it has worked?

[heartdive]

i kinda realized that i might do some of those things. there's a lot that i'd do to save my friends.

vague spoilers

[ladywithnovoice]

[There's a brief pause.]

What if they start spouting out lines like... "It was to make everything better even though we knew it wasn't a thing we'd be forgiven for"?

[heartdive]

well. i know someone who was like that or tried to say things like that anyway. his heart was in the right place, even if his actions weren't all that nice.

how could i really hate someone for that?

[ladywithnovoice]

Even if he hurt someone close to you? Or other people who didn't deserve it?

[heartdive]

he did and yeah... i kinda forgave him for it.

[ladywithnovoice]

Sounds like it'd be tough.

[heartdive]

he ended up helping the people he hurt and saved my life. more than once.

that makes it a lot easier, don't you think?

[ladywithnovoice]

It does.

If he hadn't done that, would you have different thoughts?

[heartdive]

yeah, probably. i mean there wouldn't be a reason for me to give him another chance.