compnetwork | ✵ 001; [text/anonymous]

[A simple anonymous text goes out to the network today. Nothing malicious, honest, just curiosity speaking. For those who know him well, it’s anything but anonymous when they read it. It's a habit of his, after all, and bringing up his identity (or attaching an identity at all) might cause a bit of bias...though asking questions anonymously would subject him to some bias from those browsing the network anyway as well. ~~Shhhh.~~

Ever-curious, ever-wondering. And...a bit ever-tactless, at times. Despite the fact that several people just returned from something quite traumatic, he’s most interested in their thoughts. However, others are certainly welcome too. Nothing wrong with that.]

Though seemingly unpredictable, the power to traverse worlds may contribute to the growth in humanity’s possibilities. But will it lead to man's destruction instead, or...?

[Of course, he may sound a bit detached, but considering his own situation...oh well. Most of the humans here seemed to want to go "home", despite their duties here, and despite the need of their presences here.

And then an apparently illogical topic jump/subject change. Honestly, it’s something he’s been wondering for quite a while now, ever since his arrival. Now that people have experienced more of the proof of existence of multiple worlds, surely this would be a good time to bring it up.]

Hinoto-Ri, I wish to know. What do the worlds you hail from possess that make you desire to return to them so?

[A pause in the typing, as if he just thought of something else.]

Or, for those who have recently returned, another question, if you will. What in this world did you desire while you remained in another?

[...He’s expecting answers like “not going through hell and back”, for the last one. Though given what he’s overheard, he’d pick Hinoto-Ri over wherever they went himself any day. Alcor couldn’t blame them in the least. Humans shouldn't have to needlessly suffer...]

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...Honestly? I've been thinking about that for awhile.

Maybe if I didn't exist in the first place, things would be better.

[...wwwwwow that sounded really bad without context, let's try that again!]

Uh I don't want to die or anything? Nothing like that I'm just looking at the pros of me existing in that world versus the cons and right now there are a lot of cons.

[Nice save there, Tacchan. He was getting kind of worried about his fellow anon, there. Not to say that he still isn't, but...yeah. Losing your will to live is not a good thing, to Alcor.]

How does one judge the value of an existence? Who can decide if an existence is worth maintaining?

[Just wondering...well, not aloud, but...rambling.]

[He's beginning to see that this is a pattern with him, yes. Meanwhile, Tatsuya was just going over what he learned. On the one hand, Maya is going to need him, but on the other...it's because of him that she needs protection in the first place.

The world wouldn't have been reset if not for them, but if he wasn't there...would it need resetting?

...Is thinking like this what...he was trying to accomplish?]

There's not really a set answer for that, I don't think.

So it would seem. The answer would vary from person to person, being to being, would it not? Such matters are matters of perception.

[Although he'd say personally that the administrator was the one to decide that, and he doesn't actually know the answer.

He can kind of understand the whole "try to fix things but end up screwing it up more" thing, thankfully.]

[That's true, even if it's a bit too philosophical-y for him to swallow. Hmm.]

I guess.

If you want my opinion, nobody else decides whether or not you should exist but yourself. [...In....theory, but...

Please, forget about me. Go on without me...

He couldn't really stand by what he just typed, could he? Dammit..!]

But it doesn't work like that. If you have friends, they'll want you to have existed. So...like I said, there's no one set answer.

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[A bit of a contradiction there. "It doesn't work like that."]

Indeed. Which desires do you wish to listen to more: those of your friends, or your own?

[There's a bit of delay from his end before he actually replies.]

That's what I've been thinking about.

I should let them go but I can't, really. Is that selfish?

In a sense, yes. Selfishness drives your desire to distance yourself from the wishes of your friends, yet it also drives you to keep them close.

[Kind of like his dilemma. It was sort of selfish to want to listen to his own desires of distancing himself from what few companions he had to cause them less pain in the end (less trouble for everyone, supposedly), but it was also selfishness that caused him to want to spend as much time as he could with the children of possibility, even if his own existence caused nothing but trouble for them. How...selfish.]

However, it is also understandable. Mankind has been driven by companionship, and the loss of it is a prospect that frightens many.

The loss of one's self and existence is such a prospect as well.

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