Comments | grey_damaskena: the silver branch, the small white flower

grey_damaskena

the silver branch, the small white flower

Jun 10, 2011 14:45

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Uh, what? subsiding_leaf June 10 2011, 15:49:20 UTC

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but all those comments about punishment really pissed me off, even if we're just talking about vampires ( ... )

Re: Uh, what? grey_damaskena June 10 2011, 16:22:41 UTC

Both Lázár and Tokugawa are my roleplay characters, present and just pass. Regarding your reasoning, the "unless" pretty much sums up Lázár's position, which is essentially that humans are off limits to non-human things. He's not really a deep thinker: vampires are monsters, he hunts and kills monsters. It's a rather dark game and set in a dark world, in which humans are largely helpless against the supernatural forces that prey on them as they please, and the characters are mainly motivated by their personal hatred for those who have wronged them (one type of monster or another), so they don't tend to be reasonable in any case.

As for Tokugawa, she was presenting a more standardized and law-based philosophy to counter Lázár's vigilante approach. She would be the first to admit that she's oversimplifying, but then she's a great deal more reasonable than he is. :-)

Ok, a little TLDR. Your posts do that to me.^^ subsiding_leaf June 10 2011, 18:21:49 UTC

ROTFL, that's awesome. I remember Tokugawa being your roleplay character but didn't know Lázár was - I thought that had been another player's character and you had given up Tokugawa, and were asking other players while everyone was in character or something.^^; Oops ( ... )

Re: Ok, a little TLDR. Your posts do that to me.^^ grey_damaskena June 10 2011, 23:56:04 UTC

Vampire morality is also a little more complicated than standard predator-prey morality because predator and prey can talk to each other. Moral arguments are always more complicated when both parties are represented, funny that. ;-)

And I do have a rather unfortunate tendency to put up random stuff on LJ without explanation, it must be said. I know what's in my head, so I sometimes forget that other people are not so . . . er, privileged? If it can be called such. ::sweatdrops ( ... )

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