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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.]

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[envy_the_sinners]

The two fit hand in hand better than you may expect.

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[dressofheaven]

The second one usually winds up doing much worse things, because they can justify anything to themselves. Especially if the cause is something really big like "saving the world".

[Bitterness can't really be sent through text, but boy is Ilya trying.]

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[ossifragant]

The latter.

The first person is honest. The second pretends to have a noble goal, but in the end still has a selfish pursuit.

The sort of person who would claim that their selfish goal is morally superior is the type of person I can't stand.

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[otakon_geek]

I think people who hurt others and say it's for a good cause. That's the worst.

He knows all about those kind of people. He'd worked with them back at Shadow Moses, when Liquid was in charge of the Metal Gear REX project.

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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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[a_sin_for_him]

Neither is better or worse than the other. Hurt isn't measured and quantified by those that cause it, but those that feel it.

text- anon is for losers

[nolongerachild]

[Guan Xing's on the way to the National Park, when he decides to actually give his device another glance. And that question...

Well.]

It does depend. Is the second person truly doing it for a good cause? Or are we to assume we cannot tell?

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[islandshore]

It's a tough call. Option A's dangerous because they know exactly what they're doing, and they don't care. They do it anyway, which means they're probably messed up. Sociopaths, maybe.

But option B's not much better. People like that are often delusional, but I guess that depends on how they're hurting people and what they're planning. Armies supposedly fight for a good cause, but they're still taking lives. But on the other hand, you've got people who, say, fight Team Rocket. Sometimes you can't avoid hurting others, and sometimes it's actually justified.

not anon!

[heartdive]

i think both are just as bad. some times those 'good causes' can be selfish too, you know?

[twinsanity]

Well, I'm sure that people will say that the former is somehow better because at least the person doing the hurting is honest, but admitting it doesn't change what was done. Being honest about being a terrible person is still being a terrible person, isn't it?

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[beholdmydemons]

The latter. Always the latter.

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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.