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[nos_servabit]

[The camera starts recording, showing the interior of what looks to be a cabin, only illuminated by the glow of an oil lamp standing on the table. A (currently hatless) man is sitting in front of a large loom where part of a large tapestry hangs, using his knife to spread the threads so he can use them to weave them into knots and such.]

[He finally

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[effier]

[Well, this wasn't an everyday question.]

Life and death.

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[nos_servabit]

[But Jacob isn't an average man.]

That's a choice which not many people have the chance of getting. You're rather unique.

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[effier]

So are you.

And everyone else here.

[But it was her own life, not someone else's.]

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[nos_servabit]

If we weren't, we would be in a different situation than we are now, right?

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[oh_neku_dear]

[Oh, yes, thank God, somebody who wants to talk philosophy. Joshua has been bored, and this is a nice way to pass the time.]

I've made choices that are regretful, but I learned from them. At the same time, there are choices I don't regret, and some that I'm not necessarily proud of.

What about you and your choices? In the end, if you're fated to pick a certain choice, then did you really have a choice to begin with?

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[nos_servabit]

[Hi Jesus, nice to have someone to talk to. - God/Jacob]

No necessarily. "Fated" doesn't equal "inevitable". You can change your fate, and really, it's up to the person to decide where he wants to go in life. It could be as simple as turning left instead of right- and that choice could make all the difference.

[glorious_mercy]

[This question is something of a loaded gun one might say for the general, until a certain event had changed his outlook, he hadn't really made any personal choices about his actions. Of course could it be said he'd made the choice to allow the company to govern his actions, but when you were raised and groomed to be more of a weapon than an actual person, would you even be aware of having made that choice until well after it'd already been made? Regardless, he had begun to make his own choices about his actions once he'd been questioned about his reasons for them.

However, he's actually thinking now about what he was told by his mother and the truth about how he was brought into this world. It's those thoughts which prompt the question he actually gives the man.]

What about actions taken toward you before you were born, that affected how you came into the world?

[nos_servabit]

Then you had no control over them. Simple as that. It were other people's decisions that held control over you.

But it what happens after you are born where your choices play a major role.

[glorious_mercy]

What if their choices affected what I did after I was born?

[He says 'did', but he's actually thinking 'what he was'. Is a child actually held responsible for allowing the authority figures in its life to dictate its actions? Was it possible to have grown up different than he had if he had exhibited more self-assertiveness? Even if he had been effectively kicked down the one time he had attempted to assert himself as a person, perhaps it had been wrong to allow that to affect his following years. He wasn't sure.]

When a child is deprived of the choice to make his own choices...what then?

[nos_servabit]

Hmmm. Then, you'd have to take into account the decisions made after your life was shaped. Of course, everyone has their lives shaped from the beginning. But even a well-bright up child who was told not to do any wrong can become a murderer. And one who was raised in the streets and taught to steal may change and become the most charitable person in the city.

It depends on the person themselves. You choice to stand up against those taking you down might be as life-changing as the choice to essentially accept your fate.