— You're talking nonsense, Varvara. The whole point of this treatise is that one: killing is bad, and if you kill, you will fully experience the consequences of what you have done to those for whom the victim of your blade or gun was dear, and two: a self-satisfied division of people into good and evil leads to disaster. In this case, I can only advise the traveler to develop as a person and fight against corruption and injustice in society; maybe then no one will attack him.
— It says there that killing is bad, and that the curse was supposed to teach people not to do it. That's true. But it also says that some don't learn from it, because... What was it? If a sword falls into the hands of an immoral warrior, he will calmly kill, and then end his life with suicide. That's it. No miracle happened. As for those who are moral, they don't need any excuses not to kill without good reason. This is clear to any reasonable person. That is, this law teaches morality, and it punishes good people, who have nothing to learn, by taking away their own lives, while bad people continue to live, killing their friends, whom they don't feel sorry for. If they felt sorry, they would kill themselves, not their friends. Well, I won't say "good" and "bad," in your understanding, it's "those who value other people's lives" and "those who don't value other people's lives." The essence doesn't change; those who truly value other people's lives will either not take them at all, which means they will have to give up the military profession. Or, first of all, they will kill themselves as soon as they realize that because of the curse, they have to kill twice as many people without any reason.
— You don't want to answer the question about the traveler, well, let's assume... Fighting corruption and injustice is, of course, right, but he may also have insurmountable circumstances that prevented him from doing so, or even that he tried but failed... If you can't blame the robber, then you can't blame the traveler even more. And you shouldn't have avoided my question; it would have been interesting to hear what came next.
— Okay... — Varya rubbed her head. — But let's say... Two friends are riding horses through the city, and suddenly a drunk man runs out from an alleyway and gets hit by a horse. They don't make it to the hospital, and he dies. So, what should the friend who hit him do if he obeys the law of Sakimaru? It seems that the drunk man wasn't his opponent, but how can he maintain balance?