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[Filtered 100 percent AWAY from: Sokka, Toph, Zuko, Yue, Suki, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino, Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, Trafalgar, Nami, Sanji, Luffy, Chopper, and anyone else she thinks might recognize her handwriting, despite the pains she's going to in order to disguise it, or show the journal to people she really doesn't want to see this - Raine and Temari and Iroh.

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Do you think that there's such a thing as a power that is wrong, not because of how it's used, but just because of what it does?

[After staying holed up in her room with the door shut - quite an unusual break of habit for her - Katara decides to head into town. She wants to check out that night club that she'd heard about - she heard there would be music!

From there it's the usual errands, like the grocery store and the Item Shop. Dinner tonight will be Something Spicy, but she hasn't figured out what yet. Maybe it'll help get Sokka out of his funk.]

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So you think that because a power is being used to benefit somebody, that makes it all right?

It doesn't make it alright but-- well you have to ask yourself. What exactly qualifies a power as being right in the first place? Like take the power to heal someone for instance. Even that could be used to hurt someone if used for the wrong reasons. [Like prolonging torture, etc.]

I'm not talking about how a power is used. I'm talking about the nature of the power itself. It's easy to take things and use them to help or to hurt, but there are some kinds of power that go beyond that.

[There are some kinds of power that go inside of you.]

Well if that's the case I'll stick to what I said before. I believe any power can be used to help someone. And as long as it can help someone, I don't consider it wrong.

How can you be so sure about this?

[Uh I dunno maybe cause he's Bruce FREAKIN' Banner!]

In my world there are people who are hated and captured just because they have powers. This question is something I've went over in my head many times in the past couple years. [Nah, that's bullcrap. It's all because of the Hulk.]

I've heard about things like that. And I think that's wrong too.

...so you're saying that putting any kind of power into a 'it's bad by itself' category could lead to something like that?

In some cases, yeah. That's what I think.

[...okay. That's horrifying.]

I'll think about what you said. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I appreciate it.

Anytime.

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