Re: [Anon/Anon]
[...] Say a woman came to you and said that she did not see a doctor for a disease that was eating her, and that was causing her to do harm to others. She did not see a doctor because, in her madness, she saw true visions, and those visions might yet help her to help someone else. So she feared and despised this cancer, but relied on it for all things, and would not have it cut out. What would you say to that woman?
I think you would not say she was "hard on herself." But you could also not say, in good conscience, that she simply did as was her responsibility, if she risked others and her mind for a friend. And you might even say she sinned if she liked, also, to keep the disease for her own [...] purposes. If she was tempted never to part with it.
Where in the world do you live, then?
[And now, a blink on the other end.] The woman's illness? Its symptoms include promiscuity, madness, nervousness, and a nasty tendency to do things that others dislike. It is foreign to you?