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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

[nilhilistic]

No?

[ who is this, a ten year old? ]

I rather they were angry and alive as opposed to happy and dead.

[orphne]

That's true...

I guess it's hard for me to tell the difference between when I should use my own judgement, and when I should trust in someone else's. You said you wouldn't go against their wishes, right? But if it was super dangerous, you'd go along no matter what.

Do you think it's ever okay to just stop somebody from doing something you think is dangerous?

[nilhilistic]

Perhaps if I felt their judgement was compromised.

But that is what trust is. You have to trust yourself as much as you trust someone else. If you do not trust yourself, then no amount of trust you have in others will matter. It will fall apart.

There are dangers of being hurt and dangers of holding someone back because you feel afraid for them. Instead of trusting that you can handle it together.

[orphne]

That makes a lot of sense.
I think I knew that a long time ago. Maybe I forgot...?

I don't know how much of it is because of "me" and how much of it is because of the Black Beast and the wish seeds. If it's just me, I think I can trust myself more, but when there's stuff here that makes me lose control of my Personas, I don't know how I'm meant to do that.

[nilhilistic]

Then relearn yourself.

And regain that trust.

[ he has no idea what she means by persona, but his rhetoric is the same. ]