Dorian Gray (doriangray) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-05-06 13:34:00 |
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You're all murderers, aren't you?
It's an unsettling thought, when you realise that you've killed fewer people than the majority of your neighbours, and they all seem to think the murders they committed were justifiable. I wonder what the total body count for Tower Residents is -- not even including the recent vampire massacres.
[Tony Stark]
((a continuation of Dorian and Tony's #RealTalk started Here))
The trouble is, Tony, that when it comes to murdering seven billion people, or anyone, it isn't about what's right or wrong -- it's about choosing a side. You might imagine that you're doing the right thing for the people you care about, but that's all. You're never going to get a divine moment, you're never going to know for certain if you ever did the right thing and the consequences of your actions may very well reach on long after you die.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace -- All it is, all it's ever been, is the ability to be unwavering. There is no right and there is no wrong, there is only movement forward. People live, people die and they always have. You've played a role in that, so have I and so has nearly everyone else here. There are really only two kinds of people, those that live and those that exist. Those that live are the ones who get to make decisions, to experience the light and darkness in themselves, that paint and play and create. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all -- and those that do, the world happens to them. You can argue about their opportunities or lack thereof until you're blue in the face, but the truth is still that the choice was never theirs -- it was always yours because you earned it and because you took it. All you can do, Tony, is give it up. Give up living, give up the position you put yourself in and go work for one of those companies that'll pay you desperate amounts of money. Or don't. Continue to choose a side, continue to take lives in the interest of helping others, continue to let your ego rule you -- if that's what you want to do.
It's about drawing a line someplace -- but the line isn't drawn in deciding who to kill, it's long before that. You chose trump, deaths are just following suit.