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.

perspective on how we would handle the situation…'

ugliness

good, does it?" He

Why doesn't it

was surprised

that doing bad deeds already made you a bad person, unless one looked at it from the spectrum of moral relativism—which was what both Rey and Esme currently held to be

truly good or bad person. People could do good things for bad reasons and

wasn't fully good. If she was willing to kill another man's daughter to

she wasn't truly good, neither was she

but

accept that."

and her eyes

I choose to follow the path that I consider good and generate

SHE considered the

of that, then I AM good. Because the other side is what I would call EVIL." That was

hearing this, Rey

crimson eyes shone brightly as he observed her

current perspective was the way it

Good… just like

meant they followed their own path and philosophy of good…

the same at

Rey lay in

do the exact same thing that Esme would, but he did so from a neutral perspective—considering himself neither

But she was different.

own convictions! That made her the most dangerous kind

sorted out her trauma…' Rey's thoughts trailed as he

in

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an objective plan on how you'll go

room after

to say, but after waiting for a while, Rey suspected that

so, he

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