“Selfish in that you believe your opinion is more important than Alistair’s. You may believe what you’re doing is for the greater good, but from Alistair’s perspective you’re allowing Loghain a chance at redemption which Alistair doesn’t think he deserves. Alistair believes that sacrificing your life to save Ferelden is a noble deed, and that the Wardens don’t need Loghain— the very man who killed all the other Wardens and put you in this position—to do that. So, you disagree. Alistair refuses to let it end with that, and you override him— it’s going to be what you think and his feelings are irrelevant. Is his response selfish? Even childish? That can be argued, sure, but if you believe your own actions aren’t also selfish then I think you’re deluding yourself. You made that determination all on your own— you. Ignoring the wishes of the only other Grey Warden in the room, a man who is supposedly not only your friend and equal but also a man who loves you and trusts you… and assumed you trusted him. Who assumed you felt as he did, and that you agreed with him back when he said “Loghain has to die for what he’s done”. You may still believe you were right— the story is written to allow you to think that, and has no clear-cut way out where everybody is made happy— but believing you were the only arbiter to decide that is indeed selfish of you. Don’t like the word ‘selfish’? How about ‘arrogant’? How about ‘self-righteous’? These are not mutually exclusive of people who are heroes or who might also have noble goals. If anything, Loghain is a prime example of someone who can go to their grave thinking they did the right thing even though others readily disagree. Someone can respond to that and go “nope, nope, my Warden was in the right and Alistair was a jerk to disagree with me!” …and okay! Good for you. I’ll still write in my journal about how Alistair clearly wasn’t the only jerk in the room.”
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