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etraya2025-07-12 04:37 am
unaliveyourself) wrote in etraya2025-07-12 04:37 am
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[Sometime in the evening after Aurora's announcement, a new text post appears on the network.]
wooooooow, what a spooky mission, huh?? an earth that tampers with people's minds like that ... pretty intense stuff for all our newcomers!!
ahhh, i'd offer people a round of free drinks to take the edge off, but alas, everything here is already free....so instead i'll keep bar lupin open for extended hours this week! come and have a good time ... just know if you make a scene or draw a weapon there, i'll gut you like a fish! ♥
just kidding, of course!
[He's not kidding.]
really does make a man think, though, hm? is "morality" really so intrinsic to a person that it can be turned on and off like a simple switch? a "good" person can become "bad" and vice versa?
one almost has to wonder what the nature of such an anomaly as all that might be, really, if such an intangible notion can be so readily influenced ... and what motivations might be involved with seeking to harness such a phenomenon.
indulge me in a few little brain teasers, would you?
which do you believe is a heavier weight to bear, kindness, or cruelty?
is it more appropriate to prevent someone from ending a life, or saving a life?
which group do you think will suffer more from the pursuit of a return to status quo?
wooooooow, what a spooky mission, huh?? an earth that tampers with people's minds like that ... pretty intense stuff for all our newcomers!!
ahhh, i'd offer people a round of free drinks to take the edge off, but alas, everything here is already free....so instead i'll keep bar lupin open for extended hours this week! come and have a good time ... just know if you make a scene or draw a weapon there, i'll gut you like a fish! ♥
just kidding, of course!
[He's not kidding.]
really does make a man think, though, hm? is "morality" really so intrinsic to a person that it can be turned on and off like a simple switch? a "good" person can become "bad" and vice versa?
one almost has to wonder what the nature of such an anomaly as all that might be, really, if such an intangible notion can be so readily influenced ... and what motivations might be involved with seeking to harness such a phenomenon.
indulge me in a few little brain teasers, would you?
which do you believe is a heavier weight to bear, kindness, or cruelty?
is it more appropriate to prevent someone from ending a life, or saving a life?
which group do you think will suffer more from the pursuit of a return to status quo?
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I do think it’s a little pompous to say there is no measurable criteria for kindness & cruelty. Even little children understand why being belittled make them feel bad, and getting to play with their friends feels good. You don’t really need a definition to understand that, do you?
Either way, no one relishes choice being taken from them, but we don’t really get a say when it happens, do we? Least we can do is put it as it was so they can get back to determining what they’d like to do for themselves. That’s a kindness.
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we aren't being judged on kindness or cruelty, though. we're judged on "worthiness" to be saved, an inherently subjective concept.
that said, there's certainly more ambiguity to the matter than those simple cases, don't you think?
more often than not, it's those that are convinced of their inherent goodness and rightness that are capable of the most harm.
i wonder, though ... do you believe a person has an intrinsic, unchangeable nature? to these people's perspective, they are determining what they would like to do for themselves. the nature of the influence upon them is unknown.
are their wishes irrelevant, simply because someone else sees them as "unnatural"?
imagine, for instance, if you were to be in an accident and lost some of your memory, and people expected you to act exactly as you were before.
would that not be difficult and painful, to be expected to live as a person that no longer exists? how would you feel, if you became aware someone has the intention to change you to fit some vision that's not true to who you are right at this moment, regardless of "better" or "worse"?
i don't claim to have an answer, of course!
but it's certainly an interesting topic to think about, isn't it?
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Anyone is capable of change. If I get drunk and have a laugh at someone else’s expense, I may enjoy myself at the time. I may also be annoyed with a friend who intervened and spoiled my fun. But I will also be glad in the morning to have been stopped, and maybe the embarrassment will keep me from doing it again. I do not consider who my friend wants me to be; only the person I choose to be in my best & worst moments, and who I would prefer to become.
Do you like philosophy?