Eighteenth Star

[heavenfang]

All this talk...about murders and redemption.

Well I've got a reality check...no matter what any person, government, or deity might say...there are no pardons. There is no redeeming a bloodied hand. Once someone has killed, there's no turning back to innocence. It's impossible. Once someone has...murdered...they will never have a clean soul again.

That burden will be carried with them to the end of their days...and for some of them, that end will never come...

Comments

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

Why not then have the slasher blame his knife.

fffff so much for me fixing icons while making phone posts

[pilot_princess]

I'm talking about if someone gives you a weapon, tells you to kill, and says it's your job. So you're automatically a villain then?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Was it a war?

[pilot_princess]

...yeah.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

That's not the same as what killers do.

[pilot_princess]

But it's still killing, right?

Hook you up, tell you to go kill someone, and you do it because you're told. And you like watching them die because it means they approve of you and it means someone cares.

But that person's still dead, right? Still the same as a killer. Person's dead, they're not going back home.

Your argument's got a really big loophole.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

Killing someone in battle is survival.

[pilot_princess]

That's a loophole. So it's okay to kill someone if it means you'll survive?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

No. Because it means the goals of one ideal will survive.

[pilot_princess]

Even if the ideal is really crappy?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

That will be for history to decide.

[pilot_princess]

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!

So it's okay for people to kill people in a war, and let history decide after it's all done, but if one guy decides to blow someone else's brains out for his own ideals, then it's just wrong?

That's just stupid.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's stupid. But that's how reality is. And neither you or I can change that.

[pilot_princess]

You can't go around making stupid declarations like that, stupid.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...reality is harsh.

[pilot_princess]

Or you're just stupid.