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You could look for a8solution through rationalization. Everyone would have died if you didn't take action, so why trou8le yourself with guilty emotion? 8ut there is no real healing power in 8elieving that. And I don't think it's what you wanted to tell yourself anyway, is it? NOT R34LLY Or what a8out through renunciation of responsi8ility? If you were just a tool used 8y reality to perpetuate itself, where is the 8lame? 8ut that would 8e another empty idea that has no power to heal. Y34H 1V3 TR13D R4T1ON4L1Z1NG STUFF TH4T W4Y DO3SNT R34LLY H3LP You've 8een lead to 8elieve such acts of violence are natural for your kind, and that if you're upset 8y the consequences then something is wrong with you. 8ut it isn't as natural as you might think. That conditioning was a part of Milkshake's long con. Violence was respected and cele8rated on your world, 8ut remorse was rarely felt and pain could never heal due to such empty justifications. We died out a wounded race, and you are all that's left. The process of healing first involves sifting through what it isn't, which happens to 8e almost everything your trou8led mind has to offer. TH3N WH4T DO 1 DO? WH4TS TH3 4NSW3R? There isn't one.
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