Katara (
markofthebrave) wrote2011-09-10 10:26 pm
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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.
All replies will be written unless stated otherwise. The camera is obscured by a wrapped around piece of brown cloth.]
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.]
All replies will be written unless stated otherwise. The camera is obscured by a wrapped around piece of brown cloth.]
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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I suppose my best answer would be that any power that alters the way one thinks is 'wrong'. Whether by bending someone to your will, or by manipulating their flaws or thoughts.
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So then you think that a power which overrides free will is, by its nature, wrong?
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And if she was speaking, then her voice would be plaintive.]
But then why does power like that exist?
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How it exists is one thing. Why? Why does anything wrong or evil exist? Whether you believe in a higher power or not, whether you believe everything happens and exists for a reason or not, it simply is. Manipulating the environment around us is how people survive.
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...I suppose that's one way to look at it. But it doesn't make any sense to me that if it's not a power someone should have, that people have it anyway. Where's the balance?
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Of course there is. Just as good men kill to protect themselves and others, so an evil power can be used for good by the right people.
The problem is that the right people often throw such power away.
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What do you mean, 'the right people often throw such power away?'
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[Though there are some abilities that you cannot rid yourself of, as Dhaos knows.]