Pollution laughed slightly at the question but he didn't turn his eyes back from the blur of passing scenery. "It isn't in my nature to regret."
And it wasn't. Regret wasn't a natural emotion for any of them. Whether or not to regret something was an ethical question. One thing about your entire existence being focused on the destruction of mankind - their concepts of ethics and morality were something necessarily kept beyond the scope of your reality.
After a pause, he shrugged. "I don't regret but I wonder sometimes why I exist at all. At the base of it, I'm no more than Pestilence on a material level rather than a physiological one. He destroys from the inside out and I do the same from the outside in. I'm about as original as a reflection." He furrowed his brow thoughtfully. "I wouldn't have said that so many years ago - I wouldn't even have thought it, really - but the last thing I really and truly had any hand in was nuclear weaponry and War rather plucked that industry right out of my hands. Now I'm just back to London fog and holy rivers until the next bloody Hiroshima."
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Date: 2005-09-05 08:13 pm (UTC)And it wasn't. Regret wasn't a natural emotion for any of them. Whether or not to regret something was an ethical question. One thing about your entire existence being focused on the destruction of mankind - their concepts of ethics and morality were something necessarily kept beyond the scope of your reality.
After a pause, he shrugged. "I don't regret but I wonder sometimes why I exist at all. At the base of it, I'm no more than Pestilence on a material level rather than a physiological one. He destroys from the inside out and I do the same from the outside in. I'm about as original as a reflection." He furrowed his brow thoughtfully. "I wouldn't have said that so many years ago - I wouldn't even have thought it, really - but the last thing I really and truly had any hand in was nuclear weaponry and War rather plucked that industry right out of my hands. Now I'm just back to London fog and holy rivers until the next bloody Hiroshima."