[ text ] un: aragaki; like 4 am

[petsthedog]

[It comes on the network like an intrusive thought -- because it is. Because Shinjiro can't sleep, even with all the talk of distracting activities like movies and pumpkin carving and costume parties. (Where do you even get costumes on a spaceship, anyway?)

Because he can't stop thinking about what Olexa said in that building, at the end. Would you die trying to get that stone back? Cheri's motivations were selfish, but then, aren't theirs too? So-Yeon's hadn't been, and while she'd surrendered the orb, what if she hadn't? What about the next mission?]

do you think the orb is worth killing people for

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cw: reference to past suicidal behavior

[petsthedog]

[That would be because Shinjiro isn't sure what he's looking for, either. Back in Japan, when his intention was merely to take himself out of the picture, things were a lot more simple. It didn't matter so much to look the other way from suffering, because he'd decided existing with an unstable Persona did more harm than good, and so there wasn't a point in getting involved trying to stop people like Strega. Plenty of murderers would continue exist regardless of who tried to stop them, after all. It was just a shitty fact of life.]

sure
what's that one western saying? agree to disagree or some shit like that
just wanted to know what people were thinking about it

[And also the other thing Andy said before about how people cope with it. How they justify it to themselves, perhaps. He doesn't want to justify it. In the end, the answers he's gotten have frustrated and confused him perhaps more than he was before he asked. But some part of him needed to know.

As far as he sees it, there are only two positions that make sense to him on this. "It's us or them", or Alenko's position--stopping people, by force if necessary, should he think they're going too far. Consensus in either direction would've made it easier to know what to do next. Instead, all he's gotten has felt like a lot of half-baked hypocrisy.]

[oiorpata]

I don't think too many people as a whole are capable of agree to disagree.

[ humans have gone to war over virtually anything in the book. she's more surprised when agree to disagree works than when it doesn't. ]

Whatever you're looking for, I hope you get something out of this for yourself.