My thoughts on the Metaphysics of S3
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
…Prince said convinced Stan that he was evil because he wanted to blow up Water. This was a stupid argument but it worked, only because Stan felt that he was already guilty. Prince told us that if he had blown himself up before being captured they he would have skipped beach and gone straight to Water. My guess is that his sacrificing himself is such a good thing that he would have went straight to Water. But generally Stan wasn’t a naturally good person, he wasn’t generally evil either though.
Headgehog, your interpretation of Fire and Water certainly makes as much, if not more, sense than any others I’ve seen so far, but I don’t think I agree with the part about Prince’s argument to Stan. While I don’t believe Stan is inherently evil, the attempted destruction of Water, which as far as he knew at the time was a conventional fully populated planet, for what was essentially a selfish reason was, in my view, not a good action on his part. I would even agree with Prince that it was attempted mass murder. Therefore, under these circumstances, I probably would have consigned myself to Fire as well if I were Stan.
Besides, there’s always the actual mass murder he committed when he allowed himself to be bullied by Pa Gollean into blowing up Vermal and its’ admittedly less than inviting inhabitants.