User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/Ask STE's Characters./@comment-5836726-20130825053944/@comment-1942179-20150627161037

"I know there's not much point in me bringing this back up after like, two years. But looking back over these conversations, something caught my eye that's been bugging me for a while. Nudge said: ''"Its not your job to protect those who you say, "cant protect themselves", they can learn to. And if they cant, thats their problem." ''Disregarding the whole 'that's their problem' attitude, simply brushing people off saying that they can handle themselves all the time, those who can't protect themselves can simply learn to, that's incredibly idealistic coming from her. Those who can't protect themselves come in many ways. From women and children (no offense to the ladies, but not every mother is a super hero,) to the elderly, to the disabled and handicapped people, and simply to the people faced against a threat they stand no chance against.

"Anti-hero my foot. It doesn't take a goody-two-shoes to save a life, but it certainly takes either a heartless cur or a spineless coward to leave any one of the above in harm's way while you save yourself."

"They're out there, you know. People so bad that they'll just go on hurting others. What can the average person do but be victimized by people like that? If someone puts their life on the line for another, be it a spur of the moment decision or a lifelong goal to protect his or her people, that's their choice. What the crap does this 'natural selection' even mean in this case? It has no bearing on what you choose to do, be it right or wrong."

"It ain't a dog-eat-dog world, though. People shouldn't have to be criticized for helping each other out. At least they're doing something productive with their life instead of making snide remarks from the peanut gallery. Like said, it's because of these people that we can all live in the healthy, prosperous world that we do. If nobody was willing to help out, everybody too selfish to reach a hand out to someone in danger, how long do you think we'd last before civilization fell? Especially considering everything that threatens it every so often, I'd say we wouldn't even last a year, if we're lucky.

"Anyway, those are my thoughts for the day. Not really my style to necrobump, but I kinda wanted to get that off my chest. And Splice? It really didn't take much to set you off, did it? Try not to fly off the handle like that next time."