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hikari ([personal profile] reinherits) wrote in [personal profile] damp 2023-07-16 03:51 pm (UTC)

[hikari is quiet for a bit.]

... I think, if cornered, many people are capable of things they never would have considered before. This Reaper's Game feels designed to push people.

[...]

I told you before, that my nation believes bloodshed is a sign of strength and that pacifism is weakness. I will kill if I feel I must, and so I can empathize with others who believe the same... but at the same time, I always wish there could be another way, or that things didn't have to reach this point.

It is a complicated thing, to take a life in the name of what you believe in. Whether it is admirable or something to lament may be a matter of perspective, and perhaps not so black or white either.

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