[Route 29] Text (locked from Ryner)/Action - Ecruteak City

[dreamsofahero]

*it's been a day of off an on drizzly rain throughout Johto today, and on the evening of this chilly wet day a post appears on the network from Sion. Unusual for him, it's in text. Even more unusual (not that, in theory, anyone but Sion knows), he's actually set up a filter to prevent his best friend from seeing it....*

Such melancholy weather as this leads to melancholy thoughts. If there are any who care to indulge my morbid curiosity, I wonder if there's anyone who's done something out of necessity that they've regretted. Or perhaps plans to do? What is it like to live with such a decision?


*...should anyone wish to seek him out in person, he can be found sitting in a quiet cafe somewhere in Ecruteak, reading a book that's piqued his interest*

Comments

[dreamsofahero]

It does seem sensible to take advantage of the time one has here to address such matters. Though knowing what you know now, would you have done the same thing as before?

[ardent]

Well, the situation is complicated. There are a lot of things I would change about it, if I had the chance, but if I think about it, I don't think I had any other options in that particular circumstance. It was kind of unwinnable.

[dreamsofahero]

One in which there was no truly "good" option, I take it? I can understand that feeling.

[ardent]

Something like that. It was a situation that made people choose between what was just and what was right.

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What do you think should be done, in circumstances like that? When the just option isn't necessarily the right thing to do by anyone?

For example, someone breaks a law, and breaking that law is punishable by death. They knew that when they broke the law in the first place; however, the law was broken because they genuinely thought that breaking it was the only way to survive. Should that person face a death sentence anyway? What they did is unforgivable, but by human standards it's...understandable. I guess.

[dreamsofahero]

I believe it would depend upon a number of factors. What was the crime committed? Who was harmed by it? What choice would be more just, or perceived as more just? Would pardoning that person give people faith that true justice will be served and thus inspire them to better themselves, or will it suggest to people that the law in general can be thwarted and thus encourage them to ignore it? Is it possible that the law itself is unjust and ought to be altered?

Each individual circumstance is different, after all, and it's impossible to judge but when presented with it.

[ardent]

In my case, the law itself was just, but the circumstances were not. The circumstances couldn't be altered, but they allowed for a perversion of what should be considered just and we more or less had to deal with it. If that makes sense.

I really do appreciate the insight, though; thank you.

[dreamsofahero]

Then I can only presume that it was truly a matter of which choice provided for either the more ideal, or less negative, outcome, however that may have been defined.

*he's no stranger to such choices, himself*

You are quite welcome, however.