I can see why you are marked, in your world. [ it’s not said unkindly ]
You are easy to anger, and think the world so simple that good and evil, truth and lie, right and wrong, are ever so obvious and ever so easily separated. Such people are dangerous.
Tell me: if queens handing down directives about how the world is to be run is so terrible, how is it that your apparent desire to do the same is a good and just one? And in your changing it, how do you feel about the thousands upon thousands of men and women who would die in your civil wars? The homes and businesses destroyed in your riots? The lawlessness and banditry that falls from a structure of governance’s destruction? None of this mentioning the war we already wage against Corypheus and how further instability and infighting in our land would aid him directly.
Those things are ‘evil’, are they not? If they happen in pursuit of ‘good’, are they now good? Or is evil now acceptable if it is in pursuit of good. And who decides which is which? The Maker? The Chantry? The law? You, who so easily and immediately know all such things upon hearing them?
Life is more complex. You will learn so on your own, or eventually it will force you to.
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Date: 2018-06-26 03:20 pm (UTC)You are easy to anger, and think the world so simple that good and evil, truth and lie, right and wrong, are ever so obvious and ever so easily separated. Such people are dangerous.
Tell me: if queens handing down directives about how the world is to be run is so terrible, how is it that your apparent desire to do the same is a good and just one? And in your changing it, how do you feel about the thousands upon thousands of men and women who would die in your civil wars? The homes and businesses destroyed in your riots? The lawlessness and banditry that falls from a structure of governance’s destruction? None of this mentioning the war we already wage against Corypheus and how further instability and infighting in our land would aid him directly.
Those things are ‘evil’, are they not? If they happen in pursuit of ‘good’, are they now good? Or is evil now acceptable if it is in pursuit of good. And who decides which is which? The Maker? The Chantry? The law? You, who so easily and immediately know all such things upon hearing them?
Life is more complex. You will learn so on your own, or eventually it will force you to.