0091. Ground Zero. [text]

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Re: private

[a_bit_put_upon]

Ah, but your friend's situation is different, while only one element is the same. Her folly lay in her method of worship, and her faith in gods that, for all we know, may not exist. Yet she was well aware of other beliefs, and simply disregarded them as inapplicable to her. This is common practice and, I'm sorry to say, not only in humans.

Coyolxauhqui is not a worshipper, but a deity in and of herself. She is her religion, and therefore doesn't see it as such. She exists, and intrinsically doesn't understand that her ways are inapplicable to those not under her jurisdiction. What's more, she was ripped from a cycle she must endure as long as her pantheon lives, and here, she's unable to meet her own criteria.

What she did was very wrong to everyone around her--including me--and she may yet come to understand this, but here, she's like unto a beast in a trap. She knows little else, and did what in any other circumstance would prove fruitful. Her folly, then, is not in misplaced faith, but in that she herself is misplaced.

Would that I could entreat the Admiral to simply return her and our resident deities to their lives and legends, things would be far less complicated for the rest of you. Sadly, it isn't an option.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

I understand they are different situations, but I feel I would... I would betray someone I corrected on something if I said it was alright for someone else. Whether they are a god or not, I feel I would. It might not entirely be just, but I would.

I... I have difficulty with the concept of gods wanting sacrifice, or... anything, to be honest.

Equally, I... I don't know, I find that kind of action a little selfish. Because I do believe that there are circumstances where one life, for the sake of the well being of the many, of the community, of the people, is worth sacrificing. Is worth killing. I could empathise with Rose on that - her and her people killed one man because they thought it would keep her island from starving. It didn't work, but that's almost beside the point.

But... she gave, well, according to some, fourteen lives, for one person's well being. Hers. I'm only working on what I was told, but she did it for her own sake. Not for her people's sake, not for her other god's sake, but because... well, I don't know why, but I presume you do. There was nobody to protect, nobody to help. Just herself. No matter of whether she is a god, or a human, or whatever... I can't really sympathise with that.