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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 418

« on: August 04, 2025, 11:00:54 PM »

I'd be a lot more sympathetic towards Taras should he stop killing people casually while saying how they don't count as people.

Some things are complicated.  Some things are not.  And I don't have to waste my time saying how they must be doing <long list of horrible things> for a good reason.

Sometimes when you stop doing horrible things to people, it turns out there was no good reason for it in the first place.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 418

« on: August 03, 2025, 08:29:09 PM »

Well, we can look back at page 66, where Taras happily ashes an Ave into dust for talking back to him.  And by talking back, he means 'saying anything in his presence.'  While calling them worthless servant-birds.

The only thing to know for certain is that whenever there's brutal, powerful people enslaving the innocent, there's people on the internet ready to jump to defend them.

The tao of Fred Rogers has the right of it.  Look for the helpers.  Saida knows this is wrong and needs to change.  Taras doesn't.  And it's immediately following a plot where Saida saved the lives of her companions, at risk to her own life.

For some people, deciding that authouritarianism is wrong is unacceptable.  Not following orders?  You're an unforgivable traitor.  I think that's the crime that Saida has committed here.  Deciding to break away from them and to follow a better path.