CCCXXVII.

[dark_butler]

Boring. All you people caught in your might have beens. I think the most boring part of this City is the peace. Yes, the peace.

There is so much complaint of the violence and the curses, but there is no actual war. Just the tastes that Millennium so kindly gives you to remind you that your peace is fleeting. In the end, what remains is blood and

Comments

[obliviomancy]

You definitely need a better metaphor. Blood dries and fires go out. Anyway, what's so great about war?

[obliviomancy]

People at their limits don't think - they just react. That's not the whole story. People are a lot more complicated than that.

I'd do anything. But it doesn't take a war for me to figure that out.

[dark_butler]

Yes, it does because you can say "anything" now when there is no war, but you do not know what "anything" is until you have nothing else.

Is your morality disposable to protect those your love?

[obliviomancy]

I don't have to know what it is. Anything means anything.

Yeah. So what?

[dark_butler]

Torture? Cruelty? Destroying those who would come between you and your loved ones? Even children? Even infants?

That is not morality. That is convenience.

[obliviomancy]

There's never going to be a point when that's the only way to save them. I still would, but...

No, it's not. I just believe that I'd save what I love first. That's all.

[dark_butler]

How perfectly hypocritical of you. Bravo.

[obliviomancy]

Hypocriti-- what?

[dark_butler]

Will you die for them?

Will you die for innocents?

Where do you draw the line?

[obliviomancy]

Wherever I choose. And I'm starting to think I should draw the line here.

[dark_butler]

You have no absolute morality. I told you that morality was a lie and you have proved it for me.

[obliviomancy]

Why do morals have to be absolute to be the truth?

[dark_butler]

Because to add in moral relativism is to make a lie of the concept of morality. Morality either is or it isn't. If you want to say that you are moral so long as it suits you, you are lying to me and to yourself.