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As in The Matrix, if you had access to the Red Pill and the Blue Pill -

You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Knowing full well what it means, would you ~make~ people take the red pill?
However you like to answer: as if you're just speculating about being a character in the movie, if you want to take it as metaphors for things in "real life", if you think "real life" is a Matrix of sorts - mechanical, spiritual, mental, whatever.

Do you? Do you not? Why or why not?
I know the "right" answer to this. Someone argue for me the "wrong" one.

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Equilibrium is restored.

Decent chance of showing up to the Masquerade tonight.

Comments

[servingdonuts.livejournal.com]

Hm. Are you also then suggesting that you might not let the folks you like choose?

Interesting concept... I can actually agree with that to some degree. The ones I care about are exceptions to rules that I would normally apply to every other person on earth. I would kill and die to protect or avenge them, for example. Is it wrong, then, to think that I might deny them their own free will if they are going to hurt themselves?

That runs the risk of treating your loved ones not as people but as objects. I think there's a balance, though, in a healthy relationship. Not a balance, really, but a fusion between "I respect your wishes more than anything else" and "I treasure your well-being more than anything else."

[fairyhead.livejournal.com]

So, what I was implying was not nearly that complicated.

1. Most people in the world, I don't particularly think about or care about.

2. Things are much murkier with the people I care about, because I am invested in them being happy. However, I'm not some infallible judge of what is the right path or right goal for someone else's happiness. (Hell, usually, I'm pretty shakey with myself and I live with me.) Thankfully, life endangering things rarely rear their ugly heads in my day to day life, so I don't have that worry of taking free will away from friend. People have to make mistakes to live and sometimes those mistakes aren't actually mistakes, but very cool things.