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[peratic]

What makes someone a monster?

Specifically, what traits or acts would cause you to consider someone a monster? I'm not interested in speculative tragic background stories.

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[echopraxia]

( very matter of fact, and prompt - as if she's had occasion to give this a lot of thought, and doesn't need to consider her answer. because that is the case, actually. )

Remorselessness.

[peratic]

Why? [ directness for directness. ]

[echopraxia]

We are all capable of ugliness; enacting it doesn't mean we're incapable of grace, but we make choices and we live with them, yes?

When those choices carry as much weight as what is for breakfast, what colour ribbon will I wear today, do I want to take the stairs or the elevator--

That is monstrous.

[peratic]

So there is a blitheness to a monster, in your opinion — monsters can move among us without caring what they've done, but non-monsters who have committed similar acts but regret them are a different story?

[echopraxia]

I think it's easy and tempting to think of monsters at all, when monstrosity is perpetrated, still, by people.

[peratic]

[ that seems, to gisela, like a slight derail from what was initially said (which has her still curious), but she accepts it. ]

Do you think it's used as an excuse for their behavior? Not just by those who would call an individual a monster, but by the so-called monster themselves?