twelve

[sixthsinner]

That wasn't the best night I've ever had. I know people have made up plenty of stories about the end of the world, but I never expected to actually see it.

It had a happy ending, but I'm not so sure that part of non-fiction.

Shit, spiky. Was that really you?

[ooc: A minute or so after writing this, Chapel thought better of it and scribbled over the entry. But yanno...that doesn't always work if someone happened to be looking at their journal while he wrote.]

Comments

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. Must be nice to have the luxury of that kind of thinking.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with that kind of thinking?

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

If you can avoid taking a life, great. No one wants to kill, and if they do, hell--they should probably get taken out first. But this isn't a simple world, and sometimes we face tough choices.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

It's more than just a tough choice. It's ending someone's life. That's not a choice that should be in anyone's hands.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

But it is, every day you and I and everybody else walks this earth. It's not always so simple. We can make the smallest sacrifice possible, but it's still a sacrifice.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

Is it a sacrifice or a judgement? You just said if somebody wants to kill they should be the one taken out.

Nobody has to be sacrificed. But when people think that's the only way, they don't see that there are other choices to be made.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

You might never want to kill, but if it comes down to saving others, what then? It's not so black and white, spiky.

Yeah? Tell me what you think when someone's got a gun to your head.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

Save them both.

Don't think I haven't thought about that scenario before. Or been in something like it.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me you've been there. You don't even remember your own name, much less what you've done.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

No, but I had a guy try to kill me in the scrapyard once, and that was pretty close to a gun to the head.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. But not every situation is the same.

You really believe there's no situation where you could make that choice?

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

I don't know. But I don't think I would.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Good think you didn't have to face that choice during the fire, then.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Do you really think that the fire killed everyone who died that day? There's such a thing as giving mercy. And from what I remember, there were a lot of people who could've used some.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

There are people here who can work miracles of healing and bring people back from the brink of death. I saw that happen. Everyone was working to save people, not hurry them along and call that mercy!

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Not everyone can be saved. That's one of the few things I know for certain.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

What are you saying? You didn't

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

I'm saying that's how the world works. It's about as far from perfect as you can get. And wishing it were otherwise doesn't make it true.

[gundrifter.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean we should just give up. Just cause wishing can't save people doesn't mean that actions can't. And even if the world will never be perfect, we can make it a world in which people don't have to fight or kill each other.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

I'd like you to be right, Geranium. I really would. I just don't think you are.