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link ♪ hero of time ([personal profile] songoftime) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou2016-08-15 04:47 am

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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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[personal profile] warandpeace 2016-08-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Were they dangerous?

If you had to protect yourself or other people from them, whether they were bad or not, you didn't have much of a choice. And as much as I like the idea of being a warrior personally, being a fighter, a soldier, I do wish for more peaceful solutions sometimes.

Maybe just keep protecting the people better at finding conflict resolutions until they manage to work it out.
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[personal profile] warandpeace 2016-08-17 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, as a soldier fighting with other people gives me a sense of family. We're people that depend on each other to survive. I think people that bleed for each other might as well be joined by blood. You have to have faith and compassion in those people, recognize you're fighting for each other, with each other.

As a warrior...

When I was your age, because I looked different, I wasn't treated well by other kids my age. Beat me up for having blond hair and blue eyes, because I looked like an enemy. So now the prospect of victory and success drives me. Coupled with the idea of fighting for someone I believe in
[or against someone he doesn't] and it's about as close to content with life as I can be.