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[strategy_master]

Purgatorium.What follows is a matter of my personal stance on Celestial Being. Not ShuRa's. However, I feel it necessary to make my point from a position of authority and experience

Comments

[whitetestament]

It must be quite a pleasure to live in so idyllic a world as to sincerely believe that conflict can be ended. And what then? What of those quashed under the heavy hand of "peacekeeping?" Will they not turn against their masters? Such brilliant hypocrisy...!

[strategy_master]

Indeed. It seems to me they could only make the problems here more complex by not allowing others to mitigate their problems for themselves.

... Do I know you?

[whitetestament]

Those who were brought into the world as tools of war can attest to the impossibility of separating themselves from the very conflict they sought to extinguish.

I don't believe you do.

[strategy_master]

You were a soldier, then.
Yes. Those who are bred for war can, inevitably, only know war. Even when I was no longer a student of Mathiu's, my mind remained on tactics and strategy. It's how I got by successfully as a trader, with those transferable skills.

Your name?

[whitetestament]

Weapon might be more precise! To deny one's own nature is fruitless; pitiful. He tried to do the same. How hard-learned the truth was!

...Albedo.

[makarovs_pewpew]

He's starting to notice that Albedo is kind of nucking futs.

[strategy_master]

... You were conditioned, then.
"He"?

... Shu.

[covert_chord]

Are you trying to say that without war, those "bred" for it won't be able to function in a peaceful society, then?

[strategy_master]

I believe that those bred for war never forget what they've learned. I believe they find their own methods of implementing what they've learned, because it is all they know, because they can't get away from it.

That's within my experience.

[covert_chord]

Negatively or positively implementing it?

[strategy_master]

It's applicable to you, isn't it?

[covert_chord]

You're avoiding my question. Answer it.

[strategy_master]

As are you. The answer to your question is irrelevant; I'm not going into detail because I feel no need to differentiate. The general observation is applicable, isn't it.

[covert_chord]

There is a difference between using the skills one has learned in a different fashion to benefit society and people in general, and falling slave to those very skills, unable to change and only being able to cause damage in the long run.

[strategy_master]

Do you see it as slavery to do what fulfills one the most? Even if you're designed to do something, is it so terrible to accept it and do it, if that is the only way you can be satisfied?

To me, it's no different than choosing your own path. The option is always there. Taking it or not taking it is also a choice made.

[covert_chord]

...Not if those skills only lead to the deaths of others.