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Jan. 17th, 2015 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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?
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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Date: 2015-01-18 04:25 am (UTC)"...but at least you tried. Really."
"What else am I supposed to do?!"
He doesn't know for sure, but he suspects and he isn't sure what he thinks of that, other than the fact that if he's correct, this is the second damn time he's had a "goddamn it I know it's you" reaction to something someone has said to him 'anonymously' over the last month.
He doesn't know for sure. But he suspects. And he's not going to say anything directly just yet, but...]
It wasn't enough in my case, either.
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Date: 2015-01-18 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-18 05:08 am (UTC)This place has given me a reminder of my failure as of late.
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Date: 2015-01-18 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-01-18 09:58 pm (UTC)No one likes to think that they're losing their grip on things.