so what, i'm evil? i thought i was just being played with, now i'm evil too?

"Good" and "evil" are all in the eye of the beholder, man... It most likely wasn't *you* they were reacting to... Tori did say there was something "very off" about you, but she "couldn't put her finger on it"... That would certainly define what was going on around you at that point in time.

Evil in humans is almost always a choice.

Choice is the worst kind. That leads to lack of choice.

Some choose an evil path. They find young and impressionable protoges.

It is a nature/nuture situation.

You raise a pit bull to be a fighter, it's going to be a fighter, despite its nature to be a dog.

The worst kind of human is the kind that nutures evil in other humans. Those that have evil nutured in them still need to be put down, but I have 1 degree of sympathy because I know exactly how they got to be where they are.

Still. Without mental derangment or other special extenuating circumstances, we are in control of our choices.

Kolya wrote:Still. Without mental derangment or other special extenuating circumstances, we are in control of our choices.

Even with that in mind, many still have choices. They are just predisposed in a certain way. It is rare when someone has truly lost their agency. And horrible.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Ron Caliburn wrote:Some do evil because they have yet to make a choice.

I believe the saying is something to the effect of, “The only thing for Evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.” Very true words.

Ron Caliburn wrote:Yes it is.

You also see it a lot around in the blight. The kids here grow up with violence and drgs, so they never question, never think that there is any other way, so they never make a choice about what they are going to do with their lives ... usually they end up bleeding out in the gutter before 25.

You go into the Blight for one reason . . . I’ll probably go in for another.

Whereever you go, don't get lost.

Ron Caliburn wrote:I'd feel better if you didn't go in at all.

You make a very obvious target there.

Well, there is that of course . . . but I can’t ignore the fact that few people are trying to help them as it is, Ron.

Kolya wrote:Whereever you go, don't get lost.

Obviously, I’d keep my cellphone handy, Kolya. No worries there.

I never go anywhere without someone knowing where I am going and when I anticipate returning. Suggest (again) you do the same.

Make it work

Seem like a few people need to fallow Hannah's good example.

Ron Caliburn wrote:I can't be too detailed though - don't want either of the girls to try to follow me into the Blight.

We would, you know. If we thought you were getting into something you couldn’t get out of by yourself.

Wait, so Ron can't go without you and Hannah, but it's perfectly all right for you to wander off alone in the middle of the night? I'm sensing a strong double-standard coming from your direction.

concrete_Angel wrote:Wait, so Ron can't go without you and Hannah, but it's perfectly all right for you to wander off alone in the middle of the night? I'm sensing a strong double-standard coming from your direction.

I’m sure he would have tried to dissuade me if he had caught me; But generally speaking . . . Ron doesn’t tell me what to do; he only gives me advice.

I don't think anyone here doubts that you are an adult who can make your own choices Eilonwy.

there's an image.