[Carpet scratches his head thoughtfully, considering. A wish..... what would Master have wished for him.....? (Would he even have thought about it at all? If he had thought about it, had he fulfilled that wish for him, in the end?)
Carpet is distracted from that unanswerable musing by Tuan's explanation; he droops in confused displeasure.]
People should be nice to each other because they like each other and it makes them happy, not just because they're useful or a thing someone owns. It doesn't sound like you have a master, so you should be able to act how you want.
[Maybe it's a sliiightly off-kilter opinion, coming from someone who's honestly pretty close to being a useful thing himself, and who's used to having a master to tell him what to do. A master might have a right to tell people how to act towards each other and be obeyed, but a ruler? That seems a little excessive for a whole society that's too big to govern directly, especially when it's entirely the wrong motivation for being nice! That's a false and hollow kindness, not one that comes from the heart. Why would you teach people that instead of just teaching them to love each other?]
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Carpet is distracted from that unanswerable musing by Tuan's explanation; he droops in confused displeasure.]
People should be nice to each other because they like each other and it makes them happy, not just because they're useful or a thing someone owns. It doesn't sound like you have a master, so you should be able to act how you want.
[Maybe it's a sliiightly off-kilter opinion, coming from someone who's honestly pretty close to being a useful thing himself, and who's used to having a master to tell him what to do. A master might have a right to tell people how to act towards each other and be obeyed, but a ruler? That seems a little excessive for a whole society that's too big to govern directly, especially when it's entirely the wrong motivation for being nice! That's a false and hollow kindness, not one that comes from the heart. Why would you teach people that instead of just teaching them to love each other?]