[he repeats it quietly and... a little distastefully. can't say that he likes that.]
... but I think that perhaps there are times in which it is hard to choose kindness. I agree with you that it'd be nice if people weren't so quick to turn to violence -
But I also think that perhaps the greatest acts of it are born out of places of intense feeling, whether that be devotion or pain.
[hearing the words repeated back to him makes him frown again.]
...you're not wrong. Pain is being human, just like hope is being human. A heart has room for both of those things. But it's when people let their hurt and their darkness overrule everything else that we have to worry.
[mostly because it could mean the difference between helping and hurting.]
Darkness and light can't always exist without each other. [it's what he equates this to. darkness is pain, light is hope.] If there is a balance, we should find it soon enough. We just have to make sure people are looking.
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[he repeats it quietly and... a little distastefully. can't say that he likes that.]
... but I think that perhaps there are times in which it is hard to choose kindness. I agree with you that it'd be nice if people weren't so quick to turn to violence -
But I also think that perhaps the greatest acts of it are born out of places of intense feeling, whether that be devotion or pain.
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...you're not wrong. Pain is being human, just like hope is being human. A heart has room for both of those things. But it's when people let their hurt and their darkness overrule everything else that we have to worry.
[mostly because it could mean the difference between helping and hurting.]
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[it's just - ]
... at the very least from my experience, I think that the two often come together in different balances.
We just need to see what the balance is here.
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