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.

same perspective on how we would handle the

never expected to switch to his perspective so easily, but after seeing the ugliness of the world, it seemed she too had come to the same

you good, does it?" He

it

Rey was surprised by

already made you a bad person, unless one looked at it from the spectrum of moral relativism—which was what

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

fully good. If she was willing to kill another man's daughter to save

she wasn't truly good, neither was

course, Rey explained this to her, but Esme shook her head while she

accept that."

once again serious, and her eyes gleamed with nothing short of

am a good person. I choose to follow the path that I consider good and generate

what SHE

do all of that, then I AM good. Because the other side is what I would call

Rey said nothing

now.' His crimson eyes shone brightly as he

current perspective was the way it

Good… just

followed their own path and

the same

and 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.

her own convictions! That made her the most dangerous kind of

like she indeed sorted out her trauma…' Rey's thoughts trailed as he looked at

just wasn't in the

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on how you'll go about this

the room after several minutes

had to say, but after waiting for a

he asked the

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