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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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It's hard to say, without knowing the specific power that you mean. Though anything that overrides free will is something I would avoid.

[Yeah. That's what she thought.]

I'm not talking about a specific power. I was just wondering if people felt that there were some powers which were wrong. So you think that something which overrides free will is wrong?

More often than not, yes. I won't say that there aren't times in which it could be useful...to save a life or prevent a larger tragedy, somehow. But even so, that kind of power should never be treated casually.

Any power can be a wrong power, but yes there are many powers that have less than favorable reasons for existing.

[This is simply a place Jack can go where Buffy isn't. He glances up when Sister of Thunderaxe enters and gives her a rather weak, drunken wave.]

Funny seeing you in this place, Sister of Thunderaxe, what with its lack of waterish whipping things.

[Well looks like this was filtered away from all my muses...

EXCEPT ONE.]

I've actually asked myself a similar question many times. And the answer that I eventually came to is no. I don't believe there is a power that exists that couldn't be used at one point to help or benefit someone or something. Even if it's only once in a life time.

[Oh, this thing allows for writing, too! That's nice. He still hates it, but that's nice.

Sorry, kiddo, he doesn't know how this filtering function works yet, though. Give him another day.]

Power is nothing more than power. Whether it is good or evil is a quality ascribed to it by those who experience it. It cannot of itself be right or wrong.

I can think of many misuses of power, but...none that seem inherently wrong. From what I understand, power is there, to use or misuse as you will.

No. The same power that can destroy, can save and heal and rebuild.

So you think that if you use a power that overrides free will to save a life, what's being done isn't wrong?

[The question may be overly simplistic, but... it gets to the heart of the matter. Do the ends justify the means? And is that 'justification' enough?]

[Any kind? She wonders what harm healing could do.

...then again. Healing to just be hurt over and over...]

What kinds of powers?

[THAT NAME.

...oh great, he's drunk.]

Think of the worst possible power that your imagination can conjure.

Somewhere, in the limitless possibilities of the infinite sea, someone has that power and is likely using it. Even now.

[Yes, these are the sort of things Bern thinks about commonly.]

I don't know. I doubt there's a clear-cut answer for that sort of thing. It really does depend on the circumstances and even then...I'd think anyone with a conscience would never feel at ease with such power. But I think that's a good thing; anyone completely at ease with the thought of overriding someone's will is a person I would never want to meet again.

[It's been a while now - she's not used to or even fond of this current situation, but she knows she hasn't been performing well and she knows that Katara is the on who was probably the most effected by it. With no idea what a brother is supposed to do, she's actually been sort of pulling at straws for it

Is it that she's not being sympathetic enough? Not being rude enough? She decides, eventually... it's probably both? Which is why when she takes note of Katara getting home from her errands and such, she goes to intercept in the kitchen. She decides what a "brother" would ask is-]

What's for dinner?

Please don't call me that.

[She glances around, spots the bottle in his hand and swirls the liquid in it for a moment.]

Besides, there's plenty to bend.

[More sensibly, she should have said 'there's more to me than bending' but it's so much a part of her that... she wasn't even offended.]

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

....Swirly. [Jack contemplates the moving rum for a moment, staring intently down the neck of the bottle.] There's a twirlingness to your art, isn't there? A whippy twirling swirly whirling flirr...

My tongue hurts.

[Well, fortunately, his writing will be covered under her filter, so he's only out of luck if he wanted this to be a private discussion.]

That doesn't make any sense. For some power to be used, it has to be used on other people. Otherwise, it can't exist.

What about power that overrides free will?

[She likes Rydia's turn of phrase, because it says exactly what she means to ask about in a way that she wouldn't say it.]

Do you think that's always the case for all powers? And is that enough to make something right?

Edited 2011-09-11 03:53 (UTC)

[There is a noticeable pause for thought there.]

Doesn't all power?

[That is indeed a good brother-like question!]

I'm going to try a new recipe. Have you ever heard of fajitas?

I think you can't call power good or evil. It's just power. It's our hearts that decide how it's used, and what it becomes.

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.

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