Free Will is actually pretty costlyray_stantzMay 1 2003, 06:24:05 UTC
You tricked me.
Or, to be more precise, you enchanted me. Plus a few million more souls in the greater LA area. Man, do I feel stupid.
But no less stupid than you feel, I hope. Because your great and glorious plan was always doomed to failure. No one, no matter how *divine* they believe themselves to be, can control every single variable in an equation as complex as the whole of the human race. No matter how powerful, no matter how clever, in the end it was inevitable than something go wrong and your power play would blow up in your face. It is always that way with tyrants, no matter their intentions. The human soul will always long to be free. And in the long run, making a person a happy lotus-eater isn't really all that different than making them a soulless vampire -- either way, you're stealing their ability to conciously choose between good and evil. And that ability to choose is the greatest gift of our own souls, that which makes us most definably human.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Now I think I'll go get drunk, because I feel like crap.
Or, to be more precise, you enchanted me. Plus a few million more souls in the greater LA area. Man, do I feel stupid.
But no less stupid than you feel, I hope. Because your great and glorious plan was always doomed to failure. No one, no matter how *divine* they believe themselves to be, can control every single variable in an equation as complex as the whole of the human race. No matter how powerful, no matter how clever, in the end it was inevitable than something go wrong and your power play would blow up in your face. It is always that way with tyrants, no matter their intentions. The human soul will always long to be free. And in the long run, making a person a happy lotus-eater isn't really all that different than making them a soulless vampire -- either way, you're stealing their ability to conciously choose between good and evil. And that ability to choose is the greatest gift of our own souls, that which makes us most definably human.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Now I think I'll go get drunk, because I feel like crap.
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