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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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That's the problem, though; how the power is used is completely dependent on the person is using it. So you're still back to it not being the power, but the way it's being used. The power itself isn't making the decisions of what it's doing, which is what would make it 'good' or 'evil'...which I thought, was the point of your question.

As for your second question; I don't know. How are they using it? It still goes back to that. Are they preventing their opponent from doing more harm? Or are they forcing the person onto the blade? Do they keep them that way or do they let go after the moment is over?

[After a few moments, Derek will add:]

Let me ask you this, since you seem to be focusing on the nature of the power. If a person had this power you considered 'wrong', and it was a part of them, would that make the person themselves wrong? Just because they had it?

And let me ask you a second question. If this power was wrong, and you had the means to remove it from the person, would you? No matter how it was done? If only to prevent it from ever being used for evil?

Edited 2011-09-13 11:13 (UTC)

[This really makes her so uncomfortable. She's actually starting to feel a little physically ill from it. As a result, her answers are short.]

1) I don't know.

2) Maybe. Although that seems dangerously close to being just as wrong.

Do you understand why I asked those two questions?

Not really.

[Sorry, Derek, right now Katara is suffering through a mental play-by-play. Her thinking is not at its most clear.]

Because when people don't ask themselves those questions and know their answers before they mark something as 'wrong'...they often end up participating in genocide, or at least allowing it to happen.

The truth is, you can't really separate the power from the person. Not unless you are willing to do something to that person to get rid of the power.

...Rather like what happens here, on a lesser scale.

[Gaping at this in horror for a moment.]

I would never have anything to do with that.

[She's seen that kind of devastation far too personally to ever countenance such a thing, even if the instinctive horror of something like that isn't enough.]

And that's a good thing.

...A lot of people wouldn't uphold your standards, though. And that's where the danger lies.

...I think there's a danger in a lot more than just that.

But thank you, I'll think about what you said.

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