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[felltohate]

[ Silence for a long, long while before, hesitantly: ]

Does killing someone... make you a bad person...?

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[voice]

[ranksinmistlore]

There is no simple answer.

[voice]

[felltohate]

... oh.

[voice]

[ranksinmistlore]

Can I ask why you killed him?

[voice]

[felltohate]

[ Thinking it over, quietly. ]

My brother, he... killed his best friend, and... [ Silent again. ]

[felltohate]

[ ohay thats his name ]

... Ted?

[felltohate]

I'm not hurt, but.

It's... I... [ ... ] I might have hated myself a little too much.

[once_knighted]

... It depends on the situation.

[felltohate]

[ Quietly: ]

We're... supposed to kill, but this was... different.

[once_knighted]

["Supposed to kill" and "this was different" being in the same train of thought could only mean one of two things -- it was a friend or a family member who was killed, or there was no meaning behind the murder.]

If the killer had no good reason for what he did and feels no guilt for it, then it's hard to see them as a good person.

[felltohate]

Then what if there's no reason, but guilt?

[probablyacat]

If it is to save another, I can't see it as an entirely bad thing.

[felltohate]

What if it's not?

[probablyacat]

Ah, I suppose it would depend on the reasoning of the person who carried out the act.

[felltohate]

What if there is no reason...?

[corrinesbell]

I think if that were true about every act, there wouldn't be many good people left.

[felltohate]

You think so?

[corrinesbell]

Well...yeah. What if killing that one person has become the only way to save the rest of the world?

[felltohate]

Oh... I guess that makes sense...