[ SECRET POST #2185 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2185 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[intrigueing]

Uh...well, not really. "kill a bunch of people to save the entire universe" =/= "kill a bunch of people for shits and giggles".

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! It's really bizarre people keep bringing this up. Like...do you not see the difference between a psychopath and a regretful, say, police officer? The Doctor doesn't go around looking for people to kill.

[(Anonymous)]

Genocide stops being genocide when there are reasons behind it.

I see.

[intrigueing]

Um...no? It IS still genocide either way, extermination or attempted extermination of a race = the definition of genocide.

Now, the guy who committed genocide is not a monster when his reasons behind it are "I had to either a) commit genocide or b) stand around twiddling my thumbs while the entire universe got destroyed."

He is a monster, however, if his reasons behind it are "It's fun!/I wanted to conquer a planet/They were annoying/They were trying to usurp my power/I wanted to scare people into being my slaves/etc".

Please tell me you see the difference between the two. Please.

[kamino_neko]

The main difference between a monster and a non-monster, having committed an atrocity is that the monster's reaction is 'Oh, that's fun!' and to do it again, whereas the non-monster's is 'I did a very bad thing, even if it's the only thing I could have done at the time' and to try to atone.

The Doctor did the latter, the Master the former. The Doctor is not a monster, the Master is.

However, the Doctor knows what he did was an atrocity on a vast, cosmic, scale. He knows how easy it is to do a terrible thing. He's atoning, but he still sees the stain. And he wants to give others a chance to atone. Both as part of his own atonement (Help EVERYBODY), and as a reassurance that he can, that he hasn't damned himself forever.

The Master didn't take the offered opportunity, because he's completely lost - what the Doctor fears he could be (not unreasonable, as he knows of at least 2 evil versions of himself - the Valyard and the Leader from the alternate universe in Inferno) - but that only reflects on the Master, not the Doctor.