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Dear everyone,

Hi. My name is Link. I have been on the ship for seven months. [And still formats everything he writes on his MID like a letter, apparently.] A lot of things have happened. They've made me think a lot about something I didn't think about at all back where I'm from. But I still don't have an answer. So I thought I would ask everyone what they thought.

When is it OK to kill? I know sometimes you have to hunt in order to eat. So as long as you are not wasteful or mean about it, that's OK, I think. Sometimes you have to defend people or stop a bad person from hurting other people. I know that's very important. But sometimes it's good people hurting other people and they won't listen to you. Sometimes it's someone who doesn't know better. Sometimes you fight because you don't understand them and you think you are defending others. How do you know when it is right and when it is wrong?

One time my previous teacher Alice told me that it's hard even for grown-ups to know what is right and what is wrong. She said everyone has to decide for themselves. I am still thinking about what she meant every day. I think there have to be some things that are always good and some things that are always evil. But it's getting harder to know what those things are the more I think about it. So I would like to know what everyone else has decided for yourselves, if that's okay.

Thank you,
Link

[With just the slightest bit of poking around at the information about the MID that posted this, it becomes clear very quickly that this is coming from a kid... Yeah.]

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[Link understands what that first line means. These thoughts have been plaguing him ever since they started... and... Unless he finds an answer, they're probably always going to bother him.

The rest only confirms what Alice said, what Niko has been saying. Though there's something in particular that stands out to him.]

So taking credit for it is important. ["Credit" seems like an odd choice. "Responsibility" would be a better word, one he'd like better, but Link probably won't think of that unless someone points it out.] Why do people have a problem with other people killing when they kill, too?

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[saveyourserpent]

Well, not quite credit, exactly. You've got to own up to what you're doing, you know? Someone's always going to think that someone else is in the wrong, that what they do is more righteous or something. And maybe they're right. Maybe they're wrong. But if you take out the particulars, we're all doing the same damn thing, and some people seem to forget that.

That make sense?

[songoftime]

Yes. That makes sense. People want to think they're doing the right thing. Thinking you're not is really scary. So maybe it's easier to think you aren't. But if you don't think about it, then doesn't that mean you might keep doing the wrong thing?

[saveyourserpent]

One person's right thing is always going to be the next's wrong thing. Always. And you've never really got much of a definite on which is which. Generally, that's a decision you've got to make. Is it something you can live with? Is it bothering you? That sort of thing.