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[ Action, Written ] .052

[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.

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.

[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?

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.

_{[Hm, that's an interesting question. So he'll jot down a reply in thin, neat script.]}

From what I have seen, any form of power is a tool. A tool has no inherent morality. It is the way you use it--how strongly, how often, in what context and to what end--that can be judged as right or wrong.

[In the item shop there is a chest. One plain oak chest lying open. In it are the following items:

a marine sandglass
a chip log
a sounding line curled up neatly
a sextant
a bearing compass and a magnetic one.
a chronometer
paper, pencils, drafting supplies (straight edge, parallel rules, dividers)

There's the sound of someone going through items in the back. Never know what you can find in here, you know.]

[Someone else here is covering the camera in the journal, though not because he would hide from you, Katara. But because he wants to be sure someone else doesn't have the ability to recognize his handwriting at this time.]

As others have stated, power itself is a tool that can be used to hurt or to protect. And it is also very possible for someone to have good reasons, but use methods that hurt many to accomplish their goals.

In the end, right or wrong is determined by others after we act.

What's wrong and right is subjective, but I believe powers cannot be wrong for simply what they do. Powers, abilities, weapons, they're all tools to be used for a purpose determined by the user.

'Wrong' in what way? How they're used or by what they do?

Powers are granted to those with superior genes. Those would would divide them into right and wrong are shortsighted.

[It's a curious question, but one he can answer after some thought.]

All power leads to abuse, inevitably.

[A power that is wrong, just because of what it does...

"Insipid poison." It's been so long since she's heard Phaeroh's words, so long since she had to worry about them, but even now... she can understand. Weighing the drawbacks against the help she can bring... and the fear that it might not even be possible.]

I think... the important thing is what you do with the gifts you have. A sword can be used to kill or to protect. But, even as protection, the sword's nature is a tool to bring harm. It's up to the user to remember that... and to wield it in the most responsible manner.

[You know, he'd like a break from thinking about...things. Just for awhile. So he'll think about this instead.]

It depends on how you use it. Someone with a power that has potential to be harmful can find a way to make it useful for good.

[...Or sometimes they just use it harmfully. Like taking dragons that don't belong to them. B|]

[Van being here just... makes Luke question this all the more. His own power is...

He hesitates for a long moment before he writes, and he almost wants to stop right there. But now that he's written it, he can't exactly get out of it.]

What kind of power are you talking about?

As in what that power itself does?

[He's only recently arrived, but seeing this entry in the journal caught his attention.]

There are very few powers that are truly evil, and even then, it is usually that those who wield them use that power for an evil purpose.

No.

I've been asking myself that for years.

[He's been listening in on these, mostly out of curiosity and boring. He's got a sort of gist of what this mysterious person is trying to get at. He responds, using a pretty bland kind of handwriting, mostly because it's not easy to imitate Haruhi's. Like Katara, he keeps himself off screen.]

You seem to be pretty big on this free will thing. But I think you're kind of missing a big thing when it comes to powers. I mean, you can put someone in chains or give them some drugs that take away their free will. And that's bad. You can also kill someone with a sword or some special flashy power. In the end, does it even matter?

You don't have free will when you're dead. Just putting that out there.

Yes.

[ that's exactly how caroline feels about some of her vampire-specific talents, especially the ability to turn someone into what she is. ]

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