RE: Tiny Chat People
01-10-2018, 04:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2018, 04:13 AM by gloomyMoron.)
That is pretty duplicitous for a being supposedly of the Law domain. While not necessarily unlawful, assuming we actual follow both the letter and the sentiment of the agreement, it is still kind of dickish. At that point, we're not much better than Grind, who is willing to sacrifice, at minimum, dozens of innocent and unrelated lives in a self-righteous grudge. I'm not saying what Grind is doing is against Justice, but justice can be just as destructive as injustice if not properly mitigated by Law. For a being who also claims to hold dominion over Law, Grind is awfully flippant with the lives of other beings and seems fairly quick to see things in black-and-white terms when a majority of what law is is about the grey areas between. I know Law is often portrayed as "White vs Black", "Good vs Evil", "Right vs Wrong", "Justice vs Injustice", "Truth vs Lie", "Victim vs Criminal", and so on... but real law, ACTUAL LAW, is about navigating the spaces between and determining, to the best of the ability of those involved, the values and costs associated with actions. Killing a person is both a crime and not a crime. Stealing can be both a crime and not a crime. There is grey area. Very few things in law are absolutely, 100% demonstratively and verifiably an immoral criminal act that extenuating circumstances cannot in some way lesson or excuse.