human
Narrator:  However, considering the woman’s age, it was also self-righteous, and it was too soon to demand such ideals of her. Having watched many people go to their deaths, she’d had the stench of blood and the sight of criminals being punished etched into her mind. As a result, she learned the appropriate punishment for sin before she ever learned the sanctity of life or the natural order of life and death. Good deeds begot good karma while evil deeds begot evil karma, corrupting the souls of sinners until they were fit to be punished. With a firm understanding of her father’s teachings, she sought punishments to fit crimes. And so she desired a compass to guide herself, a scale of righteousness by which she could judge evil deeds as evil.
gpt
Narrator:  However, the scale she sought did not exist anywhere that she looked. There was no simple way to judge things good or evil. Right and wrong, crime and punishment were influenced by many different factors.
human
Narrator:  She was still young and knew neither compromise nor resignation. She needed to reach an answer. She needed to imbue within her heart a worthy scale with which to judge good and evil. She needed to reach an answer to the question in her breast that refused to fade.
gpt
Narrator:  Her days of anguish continued until suddenly, as if blessed from above, she received the answer. After breaking her father’s wine cup, she cowered terribly at the crime she had committed. Resolving herself to be beheaded, she confessed her sin to her father.
human
Young Woman:  She confesses her sin to her father, resolving herself to be beheaded.
gpt
Father:  "Confessing your mistakes and apologizing is the right thing to do." Her father forgave her indiscretion, even smiling as he said that to her, patting her head.
human
Narrator:  Seeing his smile and feeling his hand patting her head, the young woman understood. —The measure of wrongdoing lay in none other than the heart of the criminal themselves. Even if no one witnessed it, a criminal’s heart still knew their sin. For good, she still did not know. Good was more difficult. There was no compass for good. She could not find a sure guide. But guilt lay within one’s own mind. There was no standard for what punishment befit what crime. But the consciousness of a crime befitting punishment did exist within one’s self. The woman understood that and was satisfied, having finally found her scale. The young woman, still unaware of the sanctity of life or the nature of life and death, had finally uncovered crimes worthy of punishment.
gpt
Narrator:  Following the model of her executioner father, she set out into the world so that she might deliver fitting punishments to crimes. To lay bare the hearts of sinners who merited punishment.
human
Narrator:  The division of good and evil, right and wrong, sincerity and insincerity would be the culmination of her life’s work. Faced with her question, some laughed, some looked concerned, and some were confused. But the result of all their answers was the same.