[ SECRET POST #2287 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2287 ⌋

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

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[(Anonymous)]

re: your s!b: It doesn't make you a terrible person, it just makes you less secure in your convictions than Donna. Donna was a down-to-earth but pretty simple person -- little education, little world experience, probably never studied anything remotely related to philosophy or politics or ethics in her life. She mainly knew people and so of course she would have a powerful NOPE reaction to the idea of letting people die, without really grasping the bigger picture until the end.

OTOH, the big picture is important, but it isn't necessarily more important than the little picture. I think the show does a pretty excellent job of showing how too much "ends justify the means" actions adding up can result in a mentality that's really poisonous and degrading to the mind and spirit, re: Dalek, The Runaway Bride, etc.

Like, for example, the end of The Parting of the Ways when Nine just can't bring himself to massacre people to save the planet? That's NOT a good thing objectively at all, that's pretty much dooming everyone and if Rose hadn't Bad Wolf'd the Earth would've been fucked, it was incredibly cowardly and selfish and unheroic, but it was incredibly important for his character. If he'd done it, it'd have set his emotional state back a hundred steps.

Again, not remotely heroic, but very few people have the capacity to be some perfect utilitarian moral computer program. It's unnatural. So just not being capable of thinking that way, because thinking that way was just so utterly revolting and bleak, was incredibly incredibly powerful and honest and it made me smile and tear up even as I was facepalming at him for being an idiot. It was incredibly human. Well not human in the technical sense, but you know what I mean...