An Extra’s POV

Is it right to take a life?

NO.

Is it right to take a life you believe to be wrong?

MAYBE.

Is it wrong to allow a life you believe to be wrong take another life?

YES.

In the endless spectrum of results, Esme chose the simplest path to arrive at her definition of morality.

"I will eliminate anyone who threatens the wellbeing of myself, those I care about, and those I consider to be worth keeping alive."

And so, when it came to the question of the two men and their daughters, Esme had her answer.

"If killing a man's daughter will save my daughter, I'll kill the daughter. If killing a man will save my daughter, I'll kill the man. And if I can kill the third party who started the twisted game, then that is what I will do."

There was no need for a moral dilemma or overcomplicating an issue that would appear simple to anyone living in a certain point of view.

"Why is that your answer?" Rey asked Esme.

"Because I can't save everyone. I have a life, and I am limited by my experiences. It's useless taking my opponent's perspective and experience into account. I am not them, and they are not me."

Rey slowly nodded.

"If I choose not to kill someone's daughter to save my own, am I so certain that the person would do the same if they were in my shoes? No… I don't think so."

In the end, humans only did things based on their perception of things.

"We don't see the world as it is, but from a contaminated lens of the self… eh?" Rey smiled as he looked at Esme.

She wasn't wrong in her analysis.

the same perspective on how we

but after seeing the ugliness of the world, it seemed she too had come to the same conclusion as

you good, does it?" He

doesn't it

surprised

bad person, unless one looked at it from the spectrum of moral relativism—which was what both Rey and Esme currently held to be the

bad person. People could do

good. If she was willing to kill another man's daughter to save her own, or commit atrocities to achieve what she percieved to

good, neither

Rey explained this to her, but Esme

accept

was once again serious, and her eyes gleamed with

a good person. I choose to follow the path that

was what SHE considered the best outcome,

I AM good. Because the other side is what

hearing this, Rey said nothing

His crimson eyes shone brightly

instantly understood why her current perspective was the

Good… just like

their own path and philosophy of good… to

the same at

big difference between Esme and Rey lay in the nature

the exact same thing that Esme would, but he did so from

But she was different.

in her own convictions! That made her the most dangerous

looks like she indeed sorted out her trauma…' Rey's

wasn't in the way I

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on how you'll

echoed in the room after several minutes of

to give her time to say whatever she had to say, but after waiting for a while, Rey suspected that

he asked

an active role in defeating the Dragons. To do that, though… I'll need to get a