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[slantedcross]

Posted: 22 May
From: Anonymous

1. Has anyone heard a prayer asking for someone else's death?

2. Has anyone considered answering such a prayer?

Names not required.

[All responses by Youji will be anon unless specified otherwise.]

Comments

[justclaws]

Why? What do you seek to learn from such questions?

[slantedcross]

I think you can tell a lot about a person by how willing they are to kill, personally

[justclaws]

Sometimes it becomes necessary.

[Just ask the people of Awa.]

[slantedcross]

Very balanced view, that. Neither eager nor wilting.

[justclaws]

And what are your views?

[slantedcross]

Still being formed. It's not something I ever had to think about before, so I decided to think about it now.

[justclaws]

I would have thought such things were obvious. Criminals are executed, are they not?

[Hello, my name is Kija and I am Not From Round Here.]

[slantedcross]

Well, yes. But on whose authority?

A god is always just, though, so there's that.

[justclaws]

[Well--

[Kija has never thought of it quite that way before. Hopefully not on someone like Yan Kum-ji's, or a pretender's. Justice seemed quite straightforward, just so long as one never actually met the people charged with carrying it out.]

But men were never meant to become Gods.

[Not like this, anyway.]

[slantedcross]

Well, that doesn't help much when it happens anyway.

[justclaws]

Someone had to think it was a good idea. I do not understand how anyone can think like that. Men are not always just.

[slantedcross]

Don't think; let your god do it for you.

[justclaws]

That is not an option for me any more. What happens if I make a mistake?

[Like, you know, walking off a cliff and finding bugs. Something really awful.

[Not that whoever this is needs to know about that.]

[slantedcross]

Please tell me more about your life that you've never made a mistake before? Ever?

[justclaws]

That is exactly my point. Everybody makes mistakes and a God cannot afford to.

I should not be doing this. None of us should.

[slantedcross]

Could do what I do, and... not do it very often.