The ghostly sense of honour is warped, twisted, and appears backwards to mortals, but it is there

A/N: Behold, the result of half an hour of boredom and longing for a break from studying! Really short I know, but like I said, I'm somewhat lacking in the time department.

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom

The ghostly sense of honour is warped, twisted, and appears backwards to mortals, but it is there. Most people don't realize it, or they don't want to realize it, but ghosts do have a sort of morality to them. It's not a matter of not being able to differentiate between right and wrong, it is simply that those morals, those ethics are too different then our own. Most people will never be able to understand, just like many ghosts will never understand the ethics of mortals.

Humans accuse ghosts of having no regard for human life; they say that the lives of the people being terrorized don't even register in the ghostly mind. And they don't, but the truth is much deeper than that. It isn't that ghosts have no regard for human life; they have no regard for life period. You have to understand, to a ghost, there is little difference between life and death. Most ghosts died so long ago that they can't even remember being alive. Life seems so short to them, so infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things that it is hardly worth considering. Everyone ends up in the Zone eventually, why should it matter if a spirit ends up in the Zone a few decades earlier than they would otherwise? When ghosts kill someone (horrible as it sounds), it's not often because they're trying to be cruel or vicious. They simply don't understand what all the fuss is about. I would wager to say that some ghosts even think they're doing their victims a favor, being of the opinion that existence as a ghost is much better than anything Earth can offer.

Mortals often assume that, because ghosts don't follow convention on this, our most sacred law, that they don't have any ethics. It's not true; it simply means that our most sacred law is not necessarily applicable to them.

Ghosts will never understand humans and humans will never understand ghosts. There are probably only three in all of existence who can truly say they understand both points of view, and of those three, I can probably understand the best. After all, Dani has no memory of being anything else than what she is now. Even though she's half human like Vlad and I, she's never tasted mortality. She has a heart yes, she can turn human, but she will never be affected by death. Vlad, while he remembers humanity well, has allowed his ghost half to twist him into something more ghost in its thinking than human. He may look and feel mortal, but he's evil. You can always see a hint of Plasmius lurking behind his gaze. I think that, out of the three of us, I'm the only one that can truly understand. I remember being mortal; I remember the vulnerability of it. I still have friends and family who are mortal and continually remind me of what it's like to be human. Yet at the same time, I'm a halfa. I have tasted immortality; I also know what it's like to laugh in the face of death, and know it can never touch you.

Though I don't agree with it and will do everything in my power to stop it, I can understand where the ghosts are coming from. I can empathize. And I can empathize with the humans too; life is precious. Although it's often hard to see, ghosts do have a code. As warped and twisted as they are, there are some rules. Most people don't know, and most don't want to. After all, it's easier to think in terms of black and white. This is right, this is wrong, and ghosts have no honour.

A/N: I didn't mean this to be nearly as dark as it sounds, I swear! I finished this, looked back at what I wrote, and was like WTF, what is this?! It just occurred to me that maybe some of Danny's enemies are just mischievous and bored. Look at Skulker. The weird thing is that I was in such a happy mood when I wrote this. So weird! I'm almost afraid to know what you guys think.