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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! ₊˚⊹♡

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[nuraridouman]

Oh my. There are absolutely many ways in how such a desire can go "too far."

I could give you some examples that I've been dragged into only within the last year, although I am not sure if that won't be too private.

[orphne]

Oh! You can make the message private if you want! There's a setting, I think.

[She literally never uses it. Also, just because it's private from the network at large doesn't mean he actually wants to share it with her??]

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[nuraridouman]

Well, then:

The first case was a helicopter parent forcefully pulling their son out of school because they thought that his friends and class teacher were bad for him, even though the son clearly disagreed.

The second concerned somebody who wanted to sacrifice an uninvolved person in order to restore their loved one.

[orphne]

Was the parent right...? Or did it not matter because it's not what the kid wanted?

I don't even know what to say about the second one. That sounds kind of crazy! What happened?

[nuraridouman]

Not at all. The other kids might not be the best students, but they are excellent friends, and they influence each other in positive ways. Same goes for their teacher - he might be unorthodox, but he cares deeply for each of his students and will lay his life on the line to support them. But all the parent saw were no good people because he hadn't handpicked them himself.

Do you believe in reincarnation?

[orphne]

Oh. That sounds like an awful parent to me, but I guess I don't know the whole situation...

I don't know about reincarnation for sure. But I guess the person you're talking about did? What happened?

[nuraridouman]

That one meant well, but he clearly forgot to consider the feelings of the one he wished to protect in his zeal. I'd say that clearly counts as going "too far" while protecting someone.

They found who they considered the reincarnation of their beloved Master and tried to sacrifice him in order to revive his previous self. Basically rip his 'new' soul out and summon the 'old' one from the afterlife so that they could live in the reincarnation's stead.

Let's just say that it got very messy.

[orphne]

[WOW that's a lot to unpack.]

Yeah, I'd definitely say that's way too far!!
Did the "old" soul even want something like that to happen...?
I could understand loving someone so much you'd want to bring them back, but not at the cost of another person's life.

[Her own, maybe, but not some other uninvolved person!]

[nuraridouman]

Who knows?
I only got involved by the middle of it, when shit's already hit the fan and everything was on proverbial fire. I have no doubts that that won't be the last time I'm preventing somebody from trying to resurrect that guy, though.

Exactly. It's one thing to kill for them, but another to make the choice to become a murderer for them.
That's what it all cooks down to, isn't it? "Does your 'love' warrant them having to live with the choices you force onto them for your own benefits?"