[it's a few minutes before she answers, and she tries to be gentle, but it's hard to convey over text]
Killing someone, even scum, it's not worth what it'd do to you That's what gives their life a scrap of meaning As long as they're alive, it saves someone having to become that
thats selfish u say ud do anything to protect people right if you wouldnt kill for them to keep them from fucking with people who are still people that aint true
There are other ways of protecting people You fight every other way you know how, you do everything you possibly can Murder is a last resort, when there's no hope left, and then you spend the rest of your damn life making up for it You don't just go out and kill somebody because it'd make life easier for you. You don't ever.
But who the hell was I to make it? Who the hell is anyone to make a choice like that You need to always have that question in the back of your mind, kid, always
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Killing someone, even scum, it's not worth what it'd do to you
That's what gives their life a scrap of meaning
As long as they're alive, it saves someone having to become that
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u say ud do anything to protect people
right
if you wouldnt kill for them
to keep them from fucking with people who are still people
that aint true
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You fight every other way you know how, you do everything you possibly can
Murder is a last resort, when there's no hope left, and then you spend the rest of your damn life making up for it
You don't just go out and kill somebody because it'd make life easier for you. You don't ever.
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Yes
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But sometimes it feels like it
Because I was the one with the choice to make, and what if I chose wrong?
[she still doesn't know. she'll probably never know. what if I chose wrong, what if civilians were killed, innocent people, what if--]
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there was only that choice
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Who the hell is anyone to make a choice like that
You need to always have that question in the back of your mind, kid, always
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with something worth killing for
thats who i am
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It just means you need to look harder
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im running out of fucking eyes
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i dont care what u do
about the gunman
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All right, kid
Be careful
[why is it he always makes her feel like someone's emptied her chest out onto the desk in front of her?]
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