... I'm just a little bitter, I suppose. Keep that in mind.
[ There's the pause of someone who's trying to figure out what he should say next. ]
It's probably pretty obvious that I'm not a proponent of self-sacrifice, especially in a place like this. And I think ... there's a big difference between 'not hurting others' and 'protecting others', more so when you're doing it at your own expense. They're not the same thing.
It's not wrong to not want to hurt people you love, 'cause—well, that's kind of just how most people are? Obviously you don't want to be responsible for hurting someone you care about. So when you're forced into a situation where you have to choose who to hurt, and you care about all of them, some people will consider letting themselves be hurt as being the only choice they can live with. Or that it's fine if they get hurt, if it means someone they care about suffers less, or not at all. But I think ... many such people forget that in a sense, that's passing the burden of responsibility onto someone else. There's guilt in knowing your loved ones are hurt for your sake, too.
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... I'm just a little bitter, I suppose. Keep that in mind.
[ There's the pause of someone who's trying to figure out what he should say next. ]
It's probably pretty obvious that I'm not a proponent of self-sacrifice, especially in a place like this. And I think ... there's a big difference between 'not hurting others' and 'protecting others', more so when you're doing it at your own expense. They're not the same thing.
It's not wrong to not want to hurt people you love, 'cause—well, that's kind of just how most people are? Obviously you don't want to be responsible for hurting someone you care about. So when you're forced into a situation where you have to choose who to hurt, and you care about all of them, some people will consider letting themselves be hurt as being the only choice they can live with. Or that it's fine if they get hurt, if it means someone they care about suffers less, or not at all. But I think ... many such people forget that in a sense, that's passing the burden of responsibility onto someone else. There's guilt in knowing your loved ones are hurt for your sake, too.