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Of all the times to experience deja vu, notifying emergency services about a snake monster before it eats her is an odd one.
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fearsome-force
"If there's such a thing as an objective definition of right and wrong, I'm pretty sure mine isn't it. But - that doesn't make it stop feeling that way."
truth_is_beauty
"That sounds - I was going to say 'really hard' but I suppose it isn't if you just do as the described feeling says."
fearsome-force
"Yeah. Did that for a while, early on. But - if I want a functioning empire, I have to pay some attention to its needs, and that means things like buying slaves instead of abducting every attractive person I pass on the street. So I had to learn to think my way around that."
truth_is_beauty
"I'm assuming you won't like the idea and if you don't it's a nonstarter but the Valar can edit things."
fearsome-force
"Not that it seems to be doing me much good, but, well. I really don't want gods messing with my head."
truth_is_beauty
"Many people would probably if asked find that their sense of morality came with - hm, thinking about knock-on effects of their actions? It's not that, say, rape is just bad in isolation, it's that it would make the victim miserable and others afraid..."
fearsome-force
"It's about—who I am, for me, I think. Being the right kind of person, doing the things the right kind of person would do."
truth_is_beauty
"But certainly it would be a problem if everyone tried to aspire to the same ideal."
fearsome-force
"...it feels like the right kind of person for me to be is defined by my - imperialness, that this is who I am because my father was the Emperor. But I don't know if that's actually why I feel that way, or if I'd have exactly the same moral compass if I'd been born in a gutter."
truth_is_beauty
"Does it matter that you're currently Emperor more by virtue of magic than by birth?"
