Glad you could join us for the next philosophical episode of Elliot’s Adventures. If you’re new here, you can catch up by returning to the beginning, and reading really fast…
They fairly ran through the Bowls of Death meadow, but even if they had flown through it, Elliot couldn’t have shut out visions of the terror Cassandra endured there at the rebel Spike’s bidding. So why did his thoughts take an unbidden fork in the road?
My love is alive today because Arturo killed Spike. I believe with all my heart that he deserved to die — but was it justice?
Might it have been better to incarcerate him for the rest of his life? Maybe they could have put him to work repairing all the damage he’d done. Maybe it would have brought the families whose lives he’d ruined a sense of satisfaction to see him serving their needs.
Entering the Freelands, Elliot witnessed rebuilding everywhere he looked.
It wouldn’t have undone the deaths he caused, but is it really better that he isn’t here to help set things right? Families mourn, and then they have to repair Spike’s devastation.
What might Cassandra think?
But right now, he needed to speak with someone else.
To be continued. . .
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Space, Time, and Raspberries 
‘What might Cassandra think?’
Indeed.
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Is it unrealistic to think we have the right to hold our leaders to a higher standard than we might hold ourselves to when we react to being the victim of violence or crime or oppression, and then hold that higher standard up as an example each of us can try to emulate?
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I don’t know if we have a ‘right’ to that, but in general, I think anyone in the public eye with authority over groups of people has a responsibility to uphold a certain ‘presence’ appropriate to the office regardless of personal personality traits, etc…
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Amen to that.
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