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[beastundermoonlight]

I had a strange dream last night I was standing on trial for trying to kidnap someone. My reasons for doing so was because I deemed that someone dangerous to a person close to me. Am I really in the wrong for attempting to do such an action? I need some consultation here.

((ooc: this is for atsushi's sentencing !))

Comments

[feintofhart]

Legally speaking, kidnapping is a crime even if you happen to believe that you have good reason for it. Or else people would go around kidnapping everyone!

Or so they say. I happen to think most people don't jump directly to kidnapping. We can hardly pass judgment without hearing more about exactly how they were dangerous, to who, and what course of action you took prior to kidnapping. And then what you planned to do afterwards, of course. Many such cases end in death, after all.

[beastundermoonlight]

Plain and simply, I wanted to capture him on my superior's orders so he could be interrogated. If it was my own volition, I would have opt to killing this dangerous person, but I am under orders not to.

[feintofhart]

So you were working at the behest of another. And what organization do you and your superior belong to? I can only think of a few professions that would send their workers to do a bit of light kidnapping.

[beastundermoonlight]

It's not worth hiding, so I'll come out and say we are from the mafia.

[feintofhart]

I had a feeling it was something like that. It's only criminals or lawmen who are quite so casual about orders of kidnapping, though I'm sure the latter would prefer the word 'detain'.

Why was it that you were forbidden from simply killing him instead? Was there a ransom involved?

[beastundermoonlight]

If I killed him, my boss would not be able to question him. There isn't a ransom involved. While I do not know what my superior wants to ask him, but I know that if given the opportunity, this person would attack him. Thus, those are my reasons for wanting to kill him.

[feintofhart]

Right. I have to admit, I'm terribly curious about the whole story behind all of this. Was he the member of an opposing gang? Law enforcement? Someone who was simply tangling with your organization?

I have to admit it's odd that you had a nightmare about it. It doesn't sound as though you feel very guilty about it whatsoever.