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

[twinsanity]

I don't know if they're any easier to deal with or not. I haven't dealt with very many of them.

If I'm going to be terrible, I'm the former. Someone I knew was the latter. I'm just not going to try to say I'm any better than he is, because I know for a fact that I'm not.

[ladywithnovoice]

I guess it's nice that you're so honest with yourself.

[twinsanity]

Yes and no, I suppose.

How would you answer, anyway? Surely you can't ask us something like this and be unprepared to respond yourself.

[ladywithnovoice]

Fair enough.

I'd say I'm the first kind of person too. I'm not really one for big noble causes... or telling people that I am.

[twinsanity]

It's all subjective anyway, isn't it? One person's noble cause is another person's grievous injury, and all of that is probably some third person's paycheck.

It's why I prefer the honesty route, anyway. There's no convincing some people that you're doing the right thing even when you are, so the least you can really do is look out for yourself instead.

Vague spoilers

[ladywithnovoice]

Couldn't you keep quiet about it? If you were doing the right thing, or thought you were, whatever.

Stay quiet until you get the result... or things fall apart catastrophically.

[twinsanity]

I suppose that's valid.

Beyond that, there's also the slight concern of what you tell yourself. I think that's why people tend to find the latter of those two suggestions so abhorrent - usually people like that don't care about convincing other people, necessarily, because they've already convinced themselves. That's what the person I knew was like.