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[photophobic]

[In the year and a half or so since his arrival, Kylo's discovered plenty of native customs and practices he enjoys- one of them being the frankly obscene indulgence of a very, very long shower. He's used up all the hot water on plenty of occasions.

But he's only very recently been introduced to bubble baths.

After a long day of hard work, there's nothing better than to sink into the richly foamed water to relax... and then scroll idly through the network, looking for the right flavour of trouble. And if there's nothing suitably provocative immediately available, if there's nothing he feels like responding to, or it's simply a slow night? Well, he's certainly not above starting a fight.
Thankfully (?) he won't be inflicting a video feed of himself sprawled comfortably in the tub on the imPort community at large, only this:]

Explain it to me.
How so many of you can be content in the belief that a person should be judged solely by what is seen of their actions, as if intention and circumstance count for nothing.

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[dragony]

Some actions hurt enough, are cruel enough that there's no intention that can absolve them. No orchestration of circumstance that can justify them. Some wounds can't be remedied by "I'm sorry."

Or "it was an accident."

"It wasn't supposed to go this way."

"It was for the greater good."

Can you say that you're not the same way, truthfully? That you could forgive anything, if the reason was "good enough?"

[photophobic]

You're assuming I believe in forgiveness.

[dragony]

Is it not necessary, for an action to be excused by its intentions?

[photophobic]

Where did I say an action should be excused by its intentions?

[dragony]

Well, what else could you possibly mean by "as if intention and circumstance count for nothing" ?

So, which is it? Do intentions matter, or don't they?

[photophobic]

Without weighing intention and circumstance, it's impossible to understand an act. To make any accurate judgement.
The rest is reaction.

[dragony]

Can you really claim you've never reacted to an incomplete picture?

That there is no action that the "right" intention would make, if not forgivable, then permissible?

[photophobic]

I never claimed it.

I asked how people could be content in the certainty of their judgement, when choosing to disregard intent and circumstance.

[dragony]

Are you ill-content, then? Because the more you speak of it, the less it sounds like you mean other people, and the more you seem to mean yourself.

[photophobic]

Quite the opposite.
No intent or circumstance is an unfathomable secret, to me.

[dragony]

Oh?

How so?

[photophobic]

I'd offer a demonstration, but most people don't enjoy being truly seen.

[dragony]

Yes. That's true.

People don't usually shelter themselves in darkness for the fun of it.

[photophobic]

What an interesting choice of words.

[dragony]

And an interesting reaction to them.

I've meant what I said. Does it mean something, to you?

[photophobic]

Darkness, or the idea of it as a shelter?

[dragony]

Yes.

Do you disagree?

[photophobic]

Not everything is blind in the dark.

[dragony]

Of course.

That's what would make it a better shelter for some. To see, but go unseen.

There's comfort in that.