markofthebrave: (A Moment's Solitude)
Katara ([personal profile] 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.]

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[identity profile] halftheduet.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a curious question, but one he can answer after some thought.]

All power leads to abuse, inevitably.

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[identity profile] halftheduet.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That is the nature of power.

Anyone who has power of any sort will abuse it at some time or another. Perhaps with the best of intentions, perhaps with the worst. Sooner or later, by its very nature, power will lead to an abuse of it.

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[identity profile] halftheduet.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Use of power is as inevitable as the abuse of it. It is human nature. But it ought to be guarded against.

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[identity profile] halftheduet.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Human nature makes us need a hierarchy. Hierarchy means power. Power leads to corruption and abuse, inevitably. But those who have power can be aware of its likelihood for abuse and watch themselves. One cannot prevent it all the time, no, but by being aware, one might manage to prevent it some.