I understand helping those from attempting suicide is humane, but at the same time, I think Reimu has a good reason to doubt herself.
Marisa wanted to end her life before she lost her mind. Her fears were being amplified, and was barely hanging on. Everything she sees or hears had the chance of being altered, and will haunt her mind until she loses it or becomes a magician.
At the very best of conditions she is already halfway there. She has mastered 2 schools of magic, leaving behind two more. At the worst, since there are 7 schools, she might only be 2/7ths of the way there. Learning these spells will take years, and with every spell learned, her hallucination will worsen.
Will Marisa still want to live like this? Is it right to take away her option to die before she becomes even more psychopathic?
Either way, I think it's very difficult to decide.
palesse said: I understand helping those from attempting suicide is humane, but at the same time, I think Reimu has a good reason to doubt herself.
Marisa wanted to end her life before she lost her mind. Her fears were being amplified, and was barely hanging on. Everything she sees or hears had the chance of being altered, and will haunt her mind until she loses it or becomes a magician.
At the very best of conditions she is already halfway there. She has mastered 2 schools of magic, leaving behind two more. At the worst, since there are 7 schools, she might only be 2/7ths of the way there. Learning these spells will take years, and with every spell learned, her hallucination will worsen.
Will Marisa still want to live like this? Is it right to take away her option to die before she becomes even more psychopathic?
Either way, I think it's very difficult to decide.
It's a metaphor. People don't kill themself because they are sad, or even because they suffer. Humans are strong. As long as their spirits hold out, they can tolerate unbelievable suffering without losing their will to live.
People kill themselves because they are ill. Because prolonged despair has a way of switching off the part of your brain that operates your sense of self-preservation. It's not a natural state of mind at all. People like that are not fit to judge the value of their own lives, and they absolutely shouldn't be allowed to chose for themselves wether they should live or die. People like that must be saved, even if they hate you for saving them.
Marisa's problem wasn't any different, it was just more obvious.
Saving others when s/he's on verge of suicidal isn't a wrong thing. It's humane.
Can I ask you what humanity is in the first place? What's so important about it?
There are cases when people choose to die because they see no other way while having waited, fought, kept on with a little hope then want to die because it's all black before them. But then there are also those who has hope, see ways to get over things, but are just simply crushed by the little things happen in their lives repeatedly then gather all their strength to live on to their final day, no other intentions.
Call them weak if you want, but I myself say they are strong to have chosen to keep it up until they break in both body and mind thoroughly. Thing is, there are people better off dead, for them and others too. Those people are not easy to die though. They'd keep living on no matter what until they are completely broken. That's why, saving them would be, despite being out of good will, inhumane, in the same idea you were saying.
...simply because I wasn't okay with it.With my egotistical mindset, thinking "I don't want Marisa to die."If I was wrong, what should I have done instead?However, I interfered and rejected Marisa's resolve and actions...Marisa strove to become a magician knowing this.She knew she would die if she broke down.Was I wrong? Did I make the wrong choice?