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 would handle the situation…'

never expected to switch to his perspective so easily, but after seeing the ugliness of the world, it

doing that doesn't make you good, does it?"

Why doesn't it make me

Rey was surprised by

a given 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 the correct

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

to kill another man's daughter to save her own, or commit

truly good, neither was

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

don't accept that."

tone was once again serious, and her eyes

I choose to follow the path that I consider good and

course, it was what SHE

of that, then I AM good. Because the other side is what I

hearing this, Rey

crimson eyes shone brightly

instantly understood why her current perspective was the way it

Chaotic Good… just like

followed their own path and philosophy of good… to

not the same

difference between Esme and Rey lay in the nature of

would, but he did so from a neutral perspective—considering himself

But she was different.

in her own convictions! That made her the most dangerous

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

just wasn't in the

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you have an objective plan on how you'll go about this new ideal of

the room after several minutes of silence from both

to say whatever she had to say, but after waiting for a while, Rey suspected that Esme was done with what she

he asked the

do that, though… I'll need to get a lot stronger than I am at the