[Text] [Anon]

[grapeeater]

[He's been thinking over this for days. Is it his duty or not? It's not like he really needs the opinions of other people... but maybe another perspective might not hurt. Not like any of them here are normal, but some... are closer than he was.]

I've got a question. If you don't care, feel free to skip this over - there's no obligation to answer.

Say you're someone powerful, whatever that means to you. You might have money, you might have skills, or you might have whatever else that gives you an advantage over other people.

Now say there's a threat, something that risks destroying you and the people you have an advantage over. If you do nothing, you might be safe but other people would die. But if you give everything, they might be safe but you would die.

How much are you obligated to give? Be selfish and survive? Or sacrifice yourself for people who might not be thankful? And why?

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[grapeeater]

I guess all we can do is try to pick ourselves up and move on.

[preybeforemeals]

If we can.

This place has given me a reminder of my failure as of late.

[grapeeater]

It seems to like doing that, unfortunately.

[preybeforemeals]

Is that why you're asking us about this? You received some sort of reminder...?

[grapeeater]

Something like that, yes.

[preybeforemeals]

...What are you looking for, if I may?

[grapeeater]

... I wanted to know if my reaction was unusual. Maybe it's a little bit on the childish side, but I wanted to know if others would act the same way. Because maybe that means I'm not crazy.

No one likes to think that they're losing their grip on things.