Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-28759193-20160724170410/@comment-24067344-20170218014630

Oceanhalo12 wrote: AACM12 wrote: so it's only not ok when their powers are used on mortals? PRETTY MUCH. I mean when fighting a non-mortal with your powers is a life-or-death situation most of the time, like when fighting, giants,gods,titans,or monsters.Even fighting demigods is mostly life-or-death, although I wouldn't condone using powers against people like Annabeth. Not saying Annabeth doesn't have powers, but all her powers(wise,tactical,weapon mastery) are things that anyone can do with some proper training.

But using powers against a mortal is ethically wrong. As the saying goes,'Don't bring a gun to a fist fight.'

Your point is moot. Not about the "It's not OK to use powers on mortals", since I agree with that. It's just you turn that premise into a path on hating Piper a lot more, but I can understand why. Though you may have not realized it consciously, but your point about Piper using her powers on mortals, while correct, your example is rather flawed. Your using an example when Piper literally didn't know she was a demigod, didn't know she was using charmspeak on people to steal things...while I think stealing is absolutely wrong, but in context of your argument...you have to realize, Piper isn't the only one who has used powers on mortals, consciously or not. Percy is another example. He used his water powers (as shown in The Lightning Thief), on a bully, and pushed her into the water fountain, despite claiming it's not true. What I find interesting is the fact that Percy complrelty denied that (though it's understandable why) and didn't feel like he had to say sorry for that matter (then again, I understand Percy was in a crisis in terms of what was the hell was happening in his world at that moment, but Piper seemed to be in a similar condition, not the bullying part, but using powers for bad-to the point of not realizing they were using supernatural powers. This makes me think even wonder how closely related Piper and Percy are, in terms of their personal expiernces and struggles, but then again, Riordan made all the character sound (POV) quite similar to each other in some way, so it's limited to both of them only, but back to topic). I agree with the fact that Piper is selfish to an extent and wanted tons of attention, but don't put her using her powers as one of the reasons why what she did was a lot worse than everyone else, since it's simply not true. But it's IMO.