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[orphne]

Hi everyone!

Jerry gave me some homework. Can you help me with it, please? ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀)

He wants me to ask if there's such a thing as going “too far” to protect someone you love. What extent would you go to protect others? Would you physically harm them if it meant saving them from harm?

Oh, you can respond with video or call or text or whatever, that's fine! If you want to talk to each other too, that'll probably help, also.

Thank you! ₊˚⊹♡

Comments

[orphne]

So what do you do in that situation? When you think one thing, but someone else has a different opinion? You can't both be right, can you?

[followyourstar]

Not necessarily... But there's always a chance you both could be wrong, too.

But I gotta say... It sounds like you have something specific in mind.

[orphne]

I hurt somebody I care a lot about.
He says it's not my fault cause of the wish seeds and the Black Beast and everything, but it still feels bad. I thought I was protecting him, but I almost killed him.

[followyourstar]

[The wish seeds and Black Beast again...]

For what it's worth, I don't think he's wrong. Those things really didn't leave anyone affected by them in the right state of mind.

You think you would have gone as far as you did if something like that hadn't happened to you?

[orphne]

No way.

[It's an immediate answer.]

We've argued before about whether a place is too dangerous for one of us to go to, and he gets mad when I put myself in danger, but I'd never do that to him normally. I think.

But after what happened, how can I know it won't happen again? And it's not a thought that's just buried deep down inside waiting to come out and hurt the people I love again?

[followyourstar]

I don't know if I have an answer to that.

But... even if that thought stays there, even if it tries to come out, are you willing to keep trying to resist it?

[orphne]

Yeah.
I never want to hurt the people I love. No matter what, I think.

Maybe that's why this question is so hard for me to answer. Lots of people seem to think that it's okay to hurt someone if it keeps them safe, but I don't know if I can do that...
Not physically, anyway

[followyourstar]

I can see where they're coming from, to be fair. Don't get me wrong, I still think there's a way to take it too far, but figuring out where that point is...

Maybe it's one of those questions that doesn't have a right answer. Just answers you can live with.