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[She's taking a break today from building. Violet has been thinking a lot lately, and she feels she needs to get this off her chest, see what others have to say.]
I've been thinking a lot lately about the nature of good and evil. Things always seem so black and white. If you kill someone, you've killed them. They're gone. It's a bad thing. But then there's accidental or when you're defending yourself -- or war.
So an act, presumably bad, is now not. But if you've committed these things, what does that make you? What if people you thought were noble?
Perhaps it's just circumstances. You do what you have to do. Greater good? But is that just an excuse we tell ourselves to live with what we've done. It makes me wonder what the point is. It can't all just be we live, we suffer, we die.
I'd hope to be a good person. I'd hope to be like my parents, but I'm not perfect, and neither were they. But then knowing that, knowing what they've done, does that change my view? Can I really judge? I don't know.
I feel like I once knew these answers, and now I don't.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the nature of good and evil. Things always seem so black and white. If you kill someone, you've killed them. They're gone. It's a bad thing. But then there's accidental or when you're defending yourself -- or war.
So an act, presumably bad, is now not. But if you've committed these things, what does that make you? What if people you thought were noble?
Perhaps it's just circumstances. You do what you have to do. Greater good? But is that just an excuse we tell ourselves to live with what we've done. It makes me wonder what the point is. It can't all just be we live, we suffer, we die.
I'd hope to be a good person. I'd hope to be like my parents, but I'm not perfect, and neither were they. But then knowing that, knowing what they've done, does that change my view? Can I really judge? I don't know.
I feel like I once knew these answers, and now I don't.