[And that really is all that it is; he's not a soft touch normally anyway, and he's not going to say that kids shouldn't die because the fact of the matter is that they do, all the damn time. It's not something arbiters are ever crazy about dealing with, but at the same time as far as Ginti is concerned, humans live just so they can die eventually - kids just happen to die a lot sooner than others.
Is it fucked up? Probably. But that doesn't make it any less of a reality, now, does it.
So this is a literal kid. That's fine. The literal kid is also indirectly asking him if he'll go to hell if he dies in some war that exactly no one asked for, which is sort of less fine but you know what, he's seen worse.]
Look, you and your friends aren't going to be marked for whatever it is you guys are doing out there. Because war is just like that and because if it wasn't them it'd be you. You called it survival right? That's an important thing, it's something you should keep in mind because that's why it matters when your leader dies but it doesn't matter when the people that are trying to kill you die, and there's no arbiter in the entire damn tower that's going to call you on that and say you deserve the Void for it.
Whether anyone's life is worth more or less than anyone else's is something that we decide all the time, but it's not something that the living can be expected to choose for themselves and like I said to you before, intent matters. You just do what you think you have to and you do what you think is right, and we'll take care of you once everything's said and done because that's what we do. If the idea of killing people messes you up that's a good thing because there's a reason it's considered so bad by pretty much every standard that's out there but we get that sometimes people die because they're in circumstances that no one in their right minds asked for and sometimes they die because war breaks out and sometimes they die because it's them or someone else and that's just how things shook out.
We get all of your memories when you come to us, we can see everything about your life and all the decisions that came along for you to deal with and we know how you think. If this is survival for you and your friends we'll get that too.
Thank you very much. I really needed to hear that. You're very good at saying exactly what I need.
I don't know everything our leader did before I met him, but he was a very good person. I don't believe he's in any danger of being sent to the Void. I really do appreciate hearing that though - that if it's survival it's different. I don't like thinking that any one person's life matters than another's, but you're right about that too. I was upset about losing my mother, not about the other villagers that were sent up to the surface world before and after her.
I think I'll need time to work through all of this as well, but I feel better. I feel like things will be okay now, even if I'm not sure how everything will turn out back home.
Thank you very much and I'm sorry I keep doing this. You're a very easy person to talk to!
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[And that really is all that it is; he's not a soft touch normally anyway, and he's not going to say that kids shouldn't die because the fact of the matter is that they do, all the damn time. It's not something arbiters are ever crazy about dealing with, but at the same time as far as Ginti is concerned, humans live just so they can die eventually - kids just happen to die a lot sooner than others.
Is it fucked up? Probably. But that doesn't make it any less of a reality, now, does it.
So this is a literal kid. That's fine. The literal kid is also indirectly asking him if he'll go to hell if he dies in some war that exactly no one asked for, which is sort of less fine but you know what, he's seen worse.]
Look, you and your friends aren't going to be marked for whatever it is you guys are doing out there. Because war is just like that and because if it wasn't them it'd be you. You called it survival right? That's an important thing, it's something you should keep in mind because that's why it matters when your leader dies but it doesn't matter when the people that are trying to kill you die, and there's no arbiter in the entire damn tower that's going to call you on that and say you deserve the Void for it.
Whether anyone's life is worth more or less than anyone else's is something that we decide all the time, but it's not something that the living can be expected to choose for themselves and like I said to you before, intent matters. You just do what you think you have to and you do what you think is right, and we'll take care of you once everything's said and done because that's what we do. If the idea of killing people messes you up that's a good thing because there's a reason it's considered so bad by pretty much every standard that's out there but we get that sometimes people die because they're in circumstances that no one in their right minds asked for and sometimes they die because war breaks out and sometimes they die because it's them or someone else and that's just how things shook out.
We get all of your memories when you come to us, we can see everything about your life and all the decisions that came along for you to deal with and we know how you think. If this is survival for you and your friends we'll get that too.
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Thank you very much. I really needed to hear that. You're very good at saying exactly what I need.
I don't know everything our leader did before I met him, but he was a very good person. I don't believe he's in any danger of being sent to the Void. I really do appreciate hearing that though - that if it's survival it's different. I don't like thinking that any one person's life matters than another's, but you're right about that too. I was upset about losing my mother, not about the other villagers that were sent up to the surface world before and after her.
I think I'll need time to work through all of this as well, but I feel better. I feel like things will be okay now, even if I'm not sure how everything will turn out back home.
Thank you very much and I'm sorry I keep doing this. You're a very easy person to talk to!