un: q.103

[monostich]

Ah, hello.

[The video opens to Kaede - pale and thin as ever - in a room that's recognizable as one of the inn rooms. He looks nervous, but to anyone who's seen him before that's... That's about how he always looks.

After a moment, he sighs.]

I've been wondering this for a while - sometimes there are requests to kill someone, but some people seem opposed to doing things like that, and I just... Don't understand why? Is it really so wrong to end someone's life if that's what you're told to do?

[What do you mean people have moral codes????]

I'm sure this is obvious to most people, but it's been... Bothering me. Is killing such a bad thing? Are there really people here who haven't done that before?

[...]

A-anyways, that's all I was wondering but, ah, you don't have to feel obligated to answer! I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Comments

[monostich]

[Oh, if this is going to be in text, he... guesses he'll respond in kind??]

Do you mean they've never been asked to kill?

[morns]

aye.

[monostich]

I see... Why is it not commonplace, then?

[morns]

'cause it's dangerous. and difficult. most people don't want to die or get arrested.

( both things which could very easily happen. )

[monostich]

Get arrested...? I don't know what that means.

[morns]

( uh. )

murder's a crime.
that means the state can lock you up with other criminals as punishment.

( unless you're in certain jobs, in which case murder is sanctioned, but she thinks that concept might be a bit too advanced for this conversation. )

[monostich]

[Oh.]

That seems like a very strange form of punishment.

[Kaede just because you’ve spent most of your life in what’s essentially a prison that doesn’t mean it’s not a punishment—]

[morns]

suppose it is. government say they want to rehabilitate people with it. don't think it works, or if they care that it doesn't.

( sure, stopping crime is important, but the punishment doesn't seem effective enough. )

[monostich]

Then why bother with it at all? That doesn’t make any sense.

[morns]

good to look like they're doing something, I suppose.