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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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A very good question. There are powers that, by mere virtue of existing, rip through time, destroy reality, and bend the truth, but that does not necessarily mean that they are wrong by principle.

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.

[Oh, now this is interesting. She quite likes that he includes the manipulation in there. But she is not quite sure how to respond without giving more of the nature of her struggle away, so there will be a pause here.]

So then you think that a power which overrides free will is, by its nature, wrong?

Yes. Though it can conceivably be used for good in the right hands, such an ability is not something anyone should possess.

[Katara will now be making certain that this filter is one hundred percent private.

And if she was speaking, then her voice would be plaintive.]

But then why does power like that exist?

[Dhaos is starting to get the feeling that this is a bit of a personal thing.]

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.

[He would not be completely wrong in that. There's a long silence there, and then...]

...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?

Things rarely happen as they should. It is often circumstance that brings such power to those people. Though Luceti seems to attract them, they are rare enough.

Maybe. Although... a lot of people have said that the power doesn't matter as much as if using it is done to help someone. Do you think there's anything to do that?

[A pause.]

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.

[Hmm. That's. Interesting. And disturbing.]

What do you mean, 'the right people often throw such power away?'

Because 'the right people' often believe such power is 'wrong', they either refuse to use it or find some way to throw it away.

[Though there are some abilities that you cannot rid yourself of, as Dhaos knows.]

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