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[neargenius]

Yesterday, I was building a card castle, but I ran out of playing cards. It was the biggest castle I have made yet, so I suppose running out of cards was inevitable. I began building with flashcards instead. I had bought them once by mistake, but they turned out to be useful for building the addition to my card castle. Written on one was the

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[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

Allies are only good short-term.

Morals define good and bad.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

That's true. Fetters can be unlocked. Loyalty is supposed to last longer, though it usually doesn't. I suppose both states are transitory, in their way.

What defines morals?

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

People who can't keep loyalties are failures.

...people. The world they're in.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

Then loyalty is the most important?

The world that you are in now is not the world that you're from. Do morals then change? Or do your morals remain the same as they were where you're from?

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

To some people.

Just because a world changes doesn't mean a person should change. It means they're too damn pliable.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

To you?

Some people would argue that changes are necessary. Development.

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

Why're you asking?

Change is fine. Turncoating isn't.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

Curiosity.

But even turncoating promotes a reaction that might be necessary. Something happens, that prompts something else to happen.

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

It killed the cat.

...that's thinking too hard about a simple issue.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

And satisfaction brought it back.

Not necessarily. Things like that aren't always simple. Sometimes you look backwards and realize that things like that were important.

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

And kills it again until its lives run out.

[ He just thinks people have a far too complicated view on how the world works. ] No, idiot, I'm saying morals should just be morals and people should follow them. Turncoating for convenience's sake is despicable.

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

That's okay. At least the cat found out the answers it wanted.

And if the morals that you had were the wrong morals? Going from "bad" to "good" is turncoating, in its own way. But for the better, perhaps.

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

What's the point of getting answers only to be killed? Useless.

You're an idiot to being with. It wouldn't be called "turncoating."

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

Getting the answers is the point. The knowledge itself. That's what is always important.

Wrong. And I know that. You used the word first, so I was using your terms so you could understand.

[ Voice ]

[fumetsu_undying]

It shouldn't be the point if it's useless.

What.

...that was directed to no-one in particular. [ Honestly... ]

[ Voice ]

[neargenius]

Knowledge is never useless. Even if you're dead, someone can use it.

It didn't seem that way. You're very direct.