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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3402624" data-attributes="member: 29014">&quot;And I accept that you may be right about animals, as well.&nbsp; Truly, I wouldn't personally kill animals, especially not for sport, but I realise that using products derived from slain animals is functionally equivalent.&quot;&quot;Even were a sentient being standing to the death in the way of assisting Lucy, I would try to knock her unconscious rather than slay her.&nbsp; To me, one sentient being does not have the right to destroy another as if his life was worthless, even in pursuit of her own goals...It is hubris for us to declare ourselves so much the better that we can decide the value of another's life.&nbsp; The only case where I would even consider it would be if there was absolutely no other choice--some deranged cultist created a death pact that could not be broken by any available magic where if the cultist wasn't killed, not just rendered unconscious but killed, Lucy would automatically perish...and even then, I would feel it a terrible act of hubris to choose the life of someone I love dearly over that of a stranger, but I would take that sacrifice as a last resort...&quot;&quot;Why is it presumptuous...well, considering oneself fit to judge over the value of another's life seems to me to be a dangerous precipice over which there is a great darkness.&nbsp; Even in the case of the cultist, what if that death pact that was going to kill Lucy was created to save the cultist's daughter from death?&nbsp; The cultist, then, has done the same thing we would be doing in killing the cultist--choosing the life of one she cares for dearly over that of a stranger, and we, unknowingly, have killed both the cultist and her daughter to save Lucy...&quot; Elizabeth sighs, &quot;I am sorry, I hope I am not depressing or boring you.&nbsp; I fully understand that my philosophical views are not practical in the situations in which many adventurers find themselves...I don't look down upon anyone who does not live by my standards--these standards are only my own, and those of any who choose them willingly.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3402624, member: 29014"] [color=gold]"And I accept that you may be right about animals, as well. Truly, I wouldn't personally kill animals, especially not for sport, but I realise that using products derived from slain animals is functionally equivalent." "Even were a sentient being standing to the death in the way of assisting Lucy, I would try to knock her unconscious rather than slay her. To me, one sentient being does not have the right to destroy another as if his life was worthless, even in pursuit of her own goals...It is hubris for us to declare ourselves so much the better that we can decide the value of another's life. The only case where I would even consider it would be if there was absolutely no other choice--some deranged cultist created a death pact that could not be broken by any available magic where if the cultist wasn't killed, not just rendered unconscious but killed, Lucy would automatically perish...and even then, I would feel it a terrible act of hubris to choose the life of someone I love dearly over that of a stranger, but I would take that sacrifice as a last resort..." "Why is it presumptuous...well, considering oneself fit to judge over the value of another's life seems to me to be a dangerous precipice over which there is a great darkness. Even in the case of the cultist, what if that death pact that was going to kill Lucy was created to save the cultist's daughter from death? The cultist, then, has done the same thing we would be doing in killing the cultist--choosing the life of one she cares for dearly over that of a stranger, and we, unknowingly, have killed both the cultist and her daughter to save Lucy..."[/color] Elizabeth sighs, [color=gold]"I am sorry, I hope I am not depressing or boring you. I fully understand that my philosophical views are not practical in the situations in which many adventurers find themselves...I don't look down upon anyone who does not live by my standards--these standards are only my own, and those of any who choose them willingly."[/color] [/QUOTE]

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