rebells: tsun, looking away (give me a bell)
Jay (the Unseen) ([personal profile] rebells) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders 2017-10-20 10:55 pm (UTC)

[Jay listens carefully to everything Geir's saying, although he's expression goes distant and oddly closed as he talks about atonement.

It doesn't apply to him. He's done a lot of wrong in his life, and he's never felt the need to make up for it--until now, a voice in him points out, but he has selfish reasons for wanting to fix the situation on the Legacy. The Oresoren. And of course he doesn't want to see his own work so callously destroyed. And--

He's never cared about right and wrong, is the point. It's one of the things that always made him different from Senel and the others.]


It's a moral idea. [Quietly, looking out towards the waves.] When you do something that's wrong--something that causes harm, the morally correct thing to do is to try and counteract that harm. And if that can't be done, the next best thing is to . . . do more good, perhaps. Good works of a magnitude that cancel out the magnitude of your harm.

That's the impression I've always gotten, anyway. I'm hardly a moral expert.

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