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[nomoresharks]

I've an odd question to ask, if you'll indulge me.

Let us say a world exists where all work toward the betterment of their world, where none go without, and no one need be separated from their loved ones before they could bid farewell. Each day is peaceful and productive, and you know your place within it. You need not leave until you are ready, and only when you feel fulfilled.

Would you choose to live in this world or the one you came from? Why?

And to those who know why I ask this question, I pray you answer as well, and do so honestly. I promise 'tis in the spirit of keeping an open mind.

Comments

[matermali]

And how does the Convocation most often manage such matters that come before them?

[nomoresharks]

I'm not entirely certain, but I think that would depend on who would end up going and what sort of magicks or creations would be at play. Though... a seal of some sort, maybe? It seems like it would help fix the problem with the least harm.

[matermali]

So it is immediately deemed a problem? That seems a bit sad. Wasteful, even.

[nomoresharks]

On the surface, perhaps. But it's not too uncommon for some people to get a bit carried away with their creations or for unexpected complications to arise as a result.

Let us use, for example, a flower. A lovely thing, mayhap even the most beautiful bloom you've ever laid eyes on. Its creator, absolutely smitten with its beauty wants to ensure it spreads far and wide, capable of growing in even the most extreme environments, seeking only to provide color and beauty reaching into the horizon.

'Tis a beautiful vision... in theory. In reality, 'tis like that the plant will end up choking out many others, or else irreparably changing the environment it spreads across into something else entirely. That ends up doing harm to the creatures living there, which causes problems down the food chain, and so on and so forth until one has a veritable disaster on their hands.

[matermali]

Yes, that is a possibility, but not a guarantee. To accept risk is to experience the verity of life. Anything less is doomed to be half-lived.