Cute Paper Person Protection Act

For Other Shore Ones bound by Eternal Nihility, asking them to respect the lives of the world was like asking humans who read books and played video games to respect the characters in those games.

Intelligent beings regarded themselves as the rulers of all living things, and naturally enslaved and consumed those weak, foolish animals.

Even the Buddhist Sect, which cherished compassion and observed countless strict precepts, had an extremely narrow definition of "life."

The Buddhist Sect merely excluded animals capable of obvious movement and possessing emotions. Plants and microorganisms still did not fall within their definition of living beings.

Asking humans to treat a passage of text on paper or an image in a painting as a living person worthy of respect was such an absurd notion that it would be mocked if spoken aloud.

Other Shore Ones were no different.

The living beings of the world had never truly died, and Other Shore Ones had never killed anyone.

So-called death, so-called fate being manipulated, so-called struggle and resistance—everything was merely information recorded on a motionless painting, no different from a passage of text describing death on paper.

This was the natural extension of the universal values of human society.

Humans who called themselves the rulers of all living things would neither could nor wished to acknowledge that their own intelligence and subjective initiative were merely an illusion, and that they too were no different from a passage of text.

They naturally condemned the coldness and heartlessness of Other Shore Ones, never realizing that the attitude Other Shore Ones held toward all living beings was simply an extension of the universal values of those living beings on a higher level.

There was no justice in the opposition between the two sides. Their positions were simply different.

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