Good and Evil

October 24, 2007

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I guess I always thought that life would always be the same. Oh sure, there would be minor differences, but day to day it should have been get up, go to work, go to sleep. And I guess in a way it is. Except that I wake up in a military bunker, and my work consists of killing stuff all day. This isn't right. I keep thinking I'll wake up and it will all be a bad dream. But every morning, I wake up, and I go out and kill, and I go to sleep.

What does that make me? I had to turn Daniel over to the AFS officer. I met him once or twice before that, he was always a nice guy. And the AFS never says exactly what they do with people like that, but I'm not thick. No one's seen him since. Are we really any better than the Bane? At least then Bane experiment on their enemies, not their own soldiers. Is the AFS really on the good side? If you have to become your enemy in order to defeat him, have you accomplished anything? I'm sure Jayjack and the others believe they are fighting war against evil, but what about the guys on the sidelines who are willing to sacrifice their own to do a little damage to the enemy. The Geneva Convention doesn't even apply, because there is no Geneva anymore. Oh, I'm not suggesting we give up, and become pacifists like the Cormans... But we really need to rethink who we are, and what we want to be. Tabula Rasa - a clean slate. It is what you make it. The question is, what are YOU going to make it?

And just like every other day, I wake up, I go to work, and I go to sleep.

Shishire Maiga
Ranger Second Class