KARTE 004 || [ANONYMOUS TEXT]

[dr_kiriko]

[The Doctor is extremely shaken up by a certain someone's arrival, though he'd never admit it.]

[An anonymous text is sent to each Guide.]

What is worse, Thor?

A wicked man who pretends to be kind to get what he wants?

Or a virtuous man who does cruel things out of necessity?

I'm looking for the answer.

Comments

[gunpowderreason]

They are the same.

[dr_kiriko]

Good choice. Why?

[gunpowderreason]

It is naive to imply that motivations matter when identical suffering is the result.

[dr_kiriko]

That's right. But the first person's actions do not lead to suffering. The recipients of his empty gestures are given true happiness.

[gunpowderreason]

The first one helps to extort, exploit and torture. The second is a murderer.

This is the information you just relayed to Mr. Hohenheim. Whether the former commits these acts with his own hands or simply aids another by providing them with the means is irrelevant--he is guilty in either case.

[dr_kiriko]

You've done your research, I see.

Yes, he is guilty. But he only preforms his actions so that, in the end, he will take revenge on a person who tormented a loved one. Those who receive his acts of charity live "happily ever after".

There is no such closure for the second man.

Is your opinion still the same?

[gunpowderreason]

Revenge is a weak pleasure of a narrow mind. My opinion is unchanged.

[dr_kiriko]

Thank you.

[gunpowderreason]

For?

[dr_kiriko]

Your answer, of course. I needed to be sure that the first man was the correct choice.

[gunpowderreason]

It isn't as easy as it sounds.

[dr_kiriko]

You do not think so?

[gunpowderreason]

Providing another with the means to cause suffering? Your hands have twice the blood.

[dr_kiriko]

I'm afraid I don't understand what it is that you are talking about.