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[absinthe_eyed]

Let me guess.  Richard--you're in the City today.  I doubt you would pass up an opportunity to be my ghost.  Abby...

I suppose this would be an opportune moment to pose questions to the universe at large, given the masses available to answer.  As such, do you, whoever you are, believe that there exists a true good and a true evil?  Is the world

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[action, at some point, if that's okay? /goes away if not <3]

[derangetheworld]

[Bang. Bang bang bang. Some visitor, o Justin, knocking at your chamber door, only this and nothing more.]

[action after Abby leaves <3]

[absinthe_eyed]

[Justin considers not answering. Abby came and went, and few people would have a reason to knock (aggressively!) on his door. And yet, he still opens it. Some people are inescapable.]

Richard. Hello.

[action after Abby leaves <3]

[derangetheworld]

[He's leaning up against the side of it, looking utterly at home.]

Hey, Justin.

[aaaaction]

[absinthe_eyed]

[Some things never change. Richard is one of those things.]

Would you like to come in?

[highcost_living]

The morality of a person. Hmm. I don't. I'm not a judge or a jury. If I was, well, I'd be someone else entirely.

Pensive as ever!

[absinthe_eyed]

Death isn't subject to considerations like that. It must be simple.

Habit.

You've been gone for a long time.

[highcost_living]

Complicated in others.

A few blinks. What have you been up to?

[absinthe_eyed]

How so?

You have a vast frame of reference where time's concerned.

...Dying, among other things. I don't know what else would interest you.

[chasingmorning]

I can answer those too.

[Though it sounds like Justin just wants to hear from the visitors.]

[absinthe_eyed]

I'd like to hear your answers.

[They're going to be more palatable than some other answers, he thinks.]

[chasingmorning]

I think that there is good and bad in people. And there's too much happening with where we grow up from or what is good or bad for there to only be one sort. People can be good. And some good is better than others.

[Munch munch on M&Ms.]

[absinthe_eyed]

[He studies Shilo for a moment with an unsettlingly detached stare (fortunately, he does this much less than he used to).]

Does what I've done ever bother you?

[dreamsofnoah]

[waving her hand in the air]

Pick me, pick me, I'll answer!

[absinthe_eyed]

What's your answer, Road?

[dreamsofnoah]

That you should give me candy and come play a game because all those questions are stupid.

[absinthe_eyed]

Fair enough.

You could take advantage of the extra people in the City and play with them. You might be able to convince them to buy candy for you.

Specifically Carpe Jugulum. :x

[bakurakrazie]

I read this in a book once, and I think this holds rather true. "Treating people as things." I think that holds true for animals, too, but it starts to get a little wordy after that. Y'know?

[absinthe_eyed]

No, I don't know. Would you mind elaborating?

[bakurakrazie]

Well, when I start getting all-encompassing like that, I wind up with "Treating things that aren't things as things." And that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue or sound especially insightful. It sounds stumble-y and awkward.

[absinthe_eyed]

Is that your definition of evil? "Treating people as things"?

For example, using another individual's life as a means of attaining a philosophical greatness?