21. Are there people in this world you simply think the world would be better without? If you could erase them out of existence without physically murdering them, would you?
Verdandir arched both her eyebrows over the edge of her book before they came crashing back down at the question. She blinked a few times and then breathed out slowly, letting the book slide down to rest gently against the cafe table’s edge.
“No,” she traced the scrawled words on the page she had been practicing reading… so many different ways to put words onto paper… and sighed. “I… understand that people naturally have a capacity to do both great good or great ill within them, yes? Very well. What, then, do you suppose is the… hmm… reason for either of these things? What causes the one to do such ill? And what gives me the right to ‘erase’ them? What if, by doing so, I remove all the good that might have been done as well? Or they would do? Or they may have done had something else have happened differently?”
She leaned forward and tapped the table, eyes intense on the other woman. “Erasing someone’s existence is as bad, if not worse, than murdering them. You have removed their ties to others… and what they may have done to influence them to do good, or even ill. The world is so connected to each other, there is no way that we can make such a simple judgement as that. Remove one single person and you never know what might come to pass.”
“Besides,” she turned her face away, eyes shadowed. “Who are we to judge what the world would be better with or without? That is… rather arrogant, do you not think?”
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