Benevolence (2)

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Is there any phrase as hollow as saying that all human lives are equal?

If you said the lives of noble heroes—like firefighters who would sacrifice their own lives right then and there to save someone—

and Nazi-like human trash whose only contributions to the world are shit and carbon dioxide were equal, who would agree?

Even in modern 21st-century society, where the concept of natural human rights has developed, that was not an idea people could easily accept.

I’m no different.

If Hitler and Gandhi arrived at my ER at the same time, my internal compass would point straight to saving Gandhi.

It seemed I wasn’t the only one who thought that.

“Um... Teacher.”

As I was preparing to operate on the black mage, Aila cautiously approached and said...