Obi-Wan is aging surprisingly well (obi1) wrote in valarcomm,
Not sleeping is fine. That's what I'll be doing for the next few hours, anyway. Not sleeping.
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On the helicopter, you and I were talking about the moral implications of taking someone's life in a combat situation. What I've realized since is what was really bothering me was that I felt like I was playing God, deciding when someone had run out of time. But I've made peace with it. I've always claimed to believe that passiveness in the face of evil is wrong. Now it's gone from an ideology to something I've actually experienced. I think what I went through was a transition or an adjustment. Do you understand? I'm not losing you, am I?
What's troubling me now has to do with dreams I've been having. In one particular dream, I'm facing a man who is possibly the embodiment of evil very dangerous. But I knew him long before, when he was a good man, and we were very close. Sometimes, I feel like he is my brother, or even my son.
So, I guess my question is, how much should your relationship with the person matter?