. . . Do you really believe she doesn't understand?
[That's what he's stuck on, at this point. The idea's not a bad one. He just can't wrap his mind around this.]
She's not a person, no. But she knows what human suffering is. She's punishing humanity using monsters, so I'd think she's well aware. She experienced emotional pain at the death of her loved ones. She feels it now. It feels like letting her off the hook to say that the reason she doesn't change things for the better is because she doesn't understand.
[He presses his lips together for a moment, then sighs.]
You're not the first person I've heard this line of logic from. It just doesn't add up to me. She can't both feel her own suffering so intensely that she needs to lash out and not understand what dozens if not hundreds of monsters have told her: that she's causing them pain. Either neither is true, or both are. Otherwise, all I can hear is people making excuses for a coward's bad behavior. Is there a piece I'm missing?
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[That's what he's stuck on, at this point. The idea's not a bad one. He just can't wrap his mind around this.]
She's not a person, no. But she knows what human suffering is. She's punishing humanity using monsters, so I'd think she's well aware. She experienced emotional pain at the death of her loved ones. She feels it now. It feels like letting her off the hook to say that the reason she doesn't change things for the better is because she doesn't understand.
[He presses his lips together for a moment, then sighs.]
You're not the first person I've heard this line of logic from. It just doesn't add up to me. She can't both feel her own suffering so intensely that she needs to lash out and not understand what dozens if not hundreds of monsters have told her: that she's causing them pain. Either neither is true, or both are. Otherwise, all I can hear is people making excuses for a coward's bad behavior. Is there a piece I'm missing?