Comments on: Bequeath, Pg 10B

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:10:47 +0000

Depends on your definition of “aught.” Technically, if you sacrifice your life to have your organs donated to various people, you could save as many as 8 lives at the cost of only your one. In theory, you “aught” to choose the lives of eight other people over your own. Frankly I would argue that you have the right to look after yourself, at least to some extent. People who waive that right to the benefit of others are for sure doing a good deed, but that doesn’t necessarily make those who don’t bad people.

And if you shouldn’t sacrifice your life to save eight, why should she potentially sacrifice her eternal soul to save one?

By: Hayley the Strange

Hayley the Strange — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:52:51 +0000

just another thought i’d like to throw in:
Anyone who knows the good he aught to do and doesn’t do it, sins

By: xcal

xcal — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:05:14 +0000

Albert, while I *think* that I disagree with your analysis of Rona, I fully agree that we’re caught up in the richness of Mr. Chen’s world and characters!

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:37:19 +0000

Yeah… I’m not entirely sure Rona wanted to do that. I’m not entirely sure she *wanted* to come on this mission in the first place. What it looks like is that she felt a sense of obligation, although personally I suspect she had a subconscious desire to be captured out of guilt for what happened to Patrice. (That’s what I meant when I said she had a complex.)

Perhaps it marks me as a hopeless geek that I’m psychoanalyzing webcomic characters, but I think it’s more a sign of how deep and believable Mr. Chen’s characters are that they can be subjected to psychoanalysis.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:00:43 +0000

I don’t think her attitude has suddenly changed drastically. I think it changed gradually, and she’s suddenly acknowledging it. In fact, I speculate that the Lady didn’t do anything to Rona. All she did was offer Rona a scenario in which she was allowed to save her own skin and also remain free of guilt; because that scenario appealed to Rona, it became so. She lost consciousness because her true self willed it.

A desire to help others that is so strong that one would charge recklessly to his/her own death in support of the cause. This is not part of who Rona truly is, but the confines of reality kept her from being able to see that.