If they invent a potion that can grow eyes back, do I owe it to you to stab my own out on the off chance that the cure will work?
At least I'd still have a self if I did. At least I wouldn't have--
[For once, he can cut himself off in mid-sentence before he says the thing he can't take back. He's already been cruder in his pain and panic here than he's ever been when talking about Myr's blindness before; he's already spoken without thinking, only feeling, and he needs to pull himself back from the edge.]
You do not owe it to him, or to anyone else in the world, to destroy yourself as penance for a mistake. Not even if you think you can be rebuilt afterward. That serves no one and nothing. That isn't how penance is done.
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At least I'd still have a self if I did. At least I wouldn't have--
[For once, he can cut himself off in mid-sentence before he says the thing he can't take back. He's already been cruder in his pain and panic here than he's ever been when talking about Myr's blindness before; he's already spoken without thinking, only feeling, and he needs to pull himself back from the edge.]
You do not owe it to him, or to anyone else in the world, to destroy yourself as penance for a mistake. Not even if you think you can be rebuilt afterward. That serves no one and nothing. That isn't how penance is done.