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[steadycourse]

I'm assuming that others also received a word, mine is 'beta!' I'm still uncertain what that really means, but maybe we should do a tally and go from there!

Anyway, I do have two other questions that I wish to ask! So, I'm going to ask!

Question 1: Has anyone heard of the name 'Kiyotaka Ishida?' I assure you that is not my name, I'm Kiyotaka Ishimaru, but I've been getting strange messages about him! From what I've gathered, he's a college student with blonde white hair.

Question 2: How would you define a 'moral compass?' Is it really possible to be the um, best in that? An ultimate moral compass??

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[promisedyou]

I don't think you want to know what the whole 'beta' thing means...

Also to answer your first question: hearing about that makes me feel more and more like I was right all along. And I do remember you having that hair color, but I thought that the last time we met, you decided for a change. Or well, maybe I just didn't want to think about it too hard.

[steadycourse]

Eh?! But it seems important to know!

So... Ishida is the person I really was? Between these strange messages and what we discussed before...

What about now?

[promisedyou]

Usually it refers to like... sexual stuff.

And I want to think so, actually.

[steadycourse]

W-WHAT?! HOW CAN THE GREEK ALPHABET BE SEXUAL?!

You mean, you prefer when I was "Ishida?"

[promisedyou]

I'm not explaining ABO to you. Unless you really want me to? Someone might get mad at me if I do, though. ☆

It's not a matter of preference... but rather, which is fabricated or not, I guess? Because it kind of scares me if memories can be changed or falsified.

[steadycourse]

ABO??? If it's sexual, it's probably not connected to why we've been assigned these words! At least I hope not! I'm not engaging in sexual activities with others!!

Then is my entire life right now fabricated?? I don't like the thought of that!!

[flametheif40]

Supposedly I'm a beta too...

Some other guy was going off about Omegas being a bad thing...

Nitemares apparently


Kiyo...oh gosh...Is it okay if I call you Kiyo? or Ki?

I don't think you can have the "ultimate moral compass"

Can one compass point north better then another? Well one can NOT work but I don't think you can gauge it, especially if morality is relative.

[steadycourse]

He did mention that! I didn't quite understand though and he advised me not to google it for whatever reason.

Huh?! Well, I don't see why not! You can call me that. I was often given nicknames in school because my full name was too long!

For this reason, let's say that a person can have that title! I at first thought that being moral was just following the law, but that won't work if the laws are harmful to others! Then is it following the rules until you think they're wrong...?

[flametheif40]

I don't know either...but I did manage to get him to say that Omeags would have horrible nightmares bad enough that they would want death.

So we have to look out for those poor souls!

Why look to the law for morality at all? What is legal, isn't necessarily moral.

Is it a good idea to follow the law, yes, but if you asked a criminal. They would tell you the problem is that they got caught, not that what they did is wrong.

[steadycourse]

That's pretty extreme! We should watch for anyone that had the title of 'omega' then! Ensure that they'll be fine!

Ngh, well laws help shape our society! Things would be chaotic without them... and I think we can agree that murder isn't acceptable!

And if a criminal said something like that, it still wouldn't erase the fact that they committed a crime! And it could be very immoral!

[flametheif40]

I know! Geez, as if we have enough to worry about without bad nitemares!

Oh I'm not saying they are useful, I'm pretty sure even a theif would say laws are freaking useful, but I don't know if they would say they are moral.

There is the whole "what if a thief stole because he was poor" the law doesn't really solve why he got poor and desperate in the 1st place. The order it brings is to ensure people don't abuse another TOO much...

By law, I don't HAVE to help anyone. But if someone never once ever helped another we would call them an asshole but we don't write laws forcing them to help another do we?

[idolworship]

most religious figures are
in a sense
"ultimate" moral compasses for those who believe in them
have you recently become a prophet of sorts?

[steadycourse]

I'm not a prophet at all and neither was my past self.

But if you're not religious, how would you become a moral compass otherwise?

[idolworship]

haha
it would've been interesting if you had been, though
(a prophet, i mean)

but, well
religion aside
i suppose it'd be by being a particularly
upstanding individual?
a shepherd of the flock, so to speak
leading by example, and encouraging others to
do the same
to keep them on track when they go astray
that sort of thing

well
that's just my guess
i don't know of people who refer to themselves as
a moral compass but
that's what i picture
when i have to think about it

is that what you were in a past life, then?
a moral compass unto others?

[steadycourse]

So a leader that does their best to keep others on the right and moral path? That does sound fitting!

Sorta... that was my title in this elite high school I attended. He was called the Moral Compass for his work on the public morals committee, but since I don't attend school now, I was thinking of other ways to live up to that title.

[usurpers]

For the second question: it’s not.

Everything involving moral is relative. There’s no right or wrong answer, only perspectives.

[steadycourse]

There has to be some things that everyone can agree on though, right? Like... not hurting others!

Or is it possible that I could be doing something worse by not hurting someone???

[usurpers]

If my loved one was in danger because of someone else, I wouldn’t hesitate, neither would I regret hurting them if it meant saving the one important to me.

But that’s me. You can have your own conduct, the same way someone else would or wouldn’t hesitate to hurt you for their cause.

[steadycourse]

Ngh, I guess that's a good example! But if it's to save someone important, stopping them is the right thing to do! Especially if you don't kill them in the process!

I'd hope that I wouldn't give someone a reason to hurt me.

There has to be some limit to all this. Like just hurting others for the sake of hurting them is clearly immoral!

[usurpers]

In theory. You can be the greatest person in the world, and somewhere out there, there’ll be a person to hate you.

What has you worked up about that anyway?

[frostythehitman]

re: question 2
why are you so concerned about a moral compass in the first place

[steadycourse]

Ah, good question! I guess you saw through me. Very well, I'll tell you!

It's because my past self had the title of Super High School Level Moral Compass! And while I know that we aren't our past, not completely, shouldn't I at least try to be more like that?

Not to mention, my other friends that hold SHSL titles are the best in what they do... or at least really good at it!

[frostythehitman]

that's not really an answer
why do you want to have/be a moral compass so bad in the first place
why SHOULD you "try to be more like that"

[steadycourse]

Because my friends can claim the titles they hold and I cannot. Not as I currently am!

And I have a feeling that it's not an ability I'll magically get one day!

[frostythehitman]

and what is that ability exactly
putting people in time out if they do something bad?