I certainly don't mean to imply you're anything like that.
[she was a horrible lady and they very rightly just pickpocketed all her money and fled. like good people who know heaven's light would do.]
But sometimes I feel a bit like that egg, maybe. I don't know if I want my life to prove a point. I just want to live it, and if I happen to decide I want to be nice and embarrassing things like that, that's my business.
[so that's sort of the feeling at the core of her reservations, but...]
On the other hand, it's not as though if you have a system that operates on judging the morality of people that you can take their own word for it.
[ she just kind of. thinks out loud about anything she's discussing with someone. ]
... Whether they're good or bad choices, they should be your own to make. Not dictated by someone else's goals, forced on you at birth. Or, in a way, forced on you after death. If all a person could be was a pile of expectations, they would hardly be their own person at all.
[ and a little nod at that last part. ]
It's complex. Even societies without official forms of leadership still develop their own social rules and expectations of each other. I don't know that having official moderation is necessarily the perfect solution. But I don't think that it's a bad thing, either.
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[she was a horrible lady and they very rightly just pickpocketed all her money and fled. like good people who know heaven's light would do.]
But sometimes I feel a bit like that egg, maybe. I don't know if I want my life to prove a point. I just want to live it, and if I happen to decide I want to be nice and embarrassing things like that, that's my business.
[so that's sort of the feeling at the core of her reservations, but...]
On the other hand, it's not as though if you have a system that operates on judging the morality of people that you can take their own word for it.
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[ she just kind of. thinks out loud about anything she's discussing with someone. ]
... Whether they're good or bad choices, they should be your own to make. Not dictated by someone else's goals, forced on you at birth. Or, in a way, forced on you after death. If all a person could be was a pile of expectations, they would hardly be their own person at all.
[ and a little nod at that last part. ]
It's complex. Even societies without official forms of leadership still develop their own social rules and expectations of each other. I don't know that having official moderation is necessarily the perfect solution. But I don't think that it's a bad thing, either.