Justification

[rowyn]

Everyone has a story they tell themselves. A story that explains it all, that justifies it. Why it was the right thing to do. Why it made sense at the time. Why you are a good person.

"It was just a little white lie." "I didn't want to hurt his feelings." "She wanted it." "They've got so much, they'll never miss it." "He was asking for it." "It wasn't part of the contract." "Insurance will cover it." "I didn't know."

Everyone is the protagonist in their own story.

And I just want to know, what is yours?

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Mine? Oh! You meant the bombers.

Probably, 'The prohibition against striking civilian targets is a self-serving fiction they've invented to convince us to bash our heads against their swords and armor. But we're smarter than that, we can strike the TRUE targets. The school where they poison the children is the real attack that we must defend against.'

I wrote something like that as the manifesto for WOMBAT, an even more insane terrorist organization than the rest of the anti-devilbunny forces.

[rowyn]

I wouldn't mind hearing your story, either. O:)

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I think I lost the plot years ago, so it's kind of a mess. Every so often something inexplicable will happen that's probably the result of a broken scenario -- it would have made sense if I'd managed to hit all the plot points before it.