star_kingdom | 10th entry

So, many of us come from different worlds, and a bunch come from Earth at different points in time...or different versions of Earth.

I guess that could lead to some culture clashes, like that Dating Auction. Some of us are more familiar with arranged marriages. I'm from [ 19th Century name for the part of Central Asia he comes from.] and I think I've heard some people refer to the time period as Victorian, for some Queen in England or whatever. That faraway place had nothing to do with my clan.

[ Unaware of the Great Game, that England had going on with Russia.]

Many of you haven't even heard of where I lived. Maybe the name changed? Or it's just part of the Russian Empire? They're way too big.

Why do I sometimes hear words in different languages anyway? Isn't there something translating whatever we say? I doubt anyone speaks Kazakh.

I had a point with this. Since we all come from places with different cultural standards,it might be better to try to keep an open mind. I think that's part of why Naoto was trying to get a better understanding of our worlds.

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Not that unusual in my time.

While it is here, I'm not saying it from a time point of view, I'm speaking more as the death sentence in general is. I realized giving someone a death sentence doesn't help anyone. It can only make things worse.

It can eliminate a threat, and it's one less mouth to feed. It's rare for someone to be enough of a threat to warrant something so extreme.

Death sentence is one that people rarely go for unless one is considered extremely dangerous. Like in a serial killer cases for example.

That's what I meant by a major threat.

[That's true. She stands there for a moment.]

Though as with as many laws as this world or others might have there are always loopholes to this type of thing. If one is considered dangerous, but mentally unstable, they could be freed of the death sentence as a minor example. Sometimes being considered unstable can lighten the sentence or change what your charged for completely.

[She always wondered if they should be treated any differently. A killer is a killer if they are sane or not.]

Is there a way to help those who are mentally unstable?

[ He doesn't think those loopholes apply but he's trying to keep an open mind.]

In most cases, it's something that cannot be cured.

Then it may also be a mercy killing for them.

But considering that mercy killing isn't something people do for a death sentence is why they probably don't get it.

Oh...
As long as they pick a quick method...
I never really thought about it that much.

[She shook her head slightly.]

I kind of do, due to my work. It helps me understand things a little better.

That makes sense. It's cool that you can become an officer.

Thanks, though I come from a family of officers.

In my time, a woman wouldn't have the opportunity.

That is because a woman's place in the past was to be a good wife, am I correct.

Well, that and a good mother to her children, and daughter to her father, and husband's father once she's married. Unless it's the husband that moves in with the wife's family. It can happen both ways.

That I didn't know about. So it can go both ways.

Yeah, it depends how the different clans do things, like which kid inherits.

I think my cousin Amir's husband has a brother-in-law living with his family.

That is simply fascinating.

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