Feb 07, 2010 01:58
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†: uzumaki naruto,
c: sam merlotte,
†: yoite,
†: syaoran (clone),
†: hatake kakashi,
c: miles edgeworth,
†: solid snake,
†: yagami raito,
†: uchiha itachi,
†: big boss,
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There's no such thing as no option there, John. Night might be the biggest advantage we can get.
I'll leave the stealth missions to you, though. If you can wait awhile longer, I'll be pulling in an income you can dip into. I can't exactly access Zero's deep pockets way out here.
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...Don't do that. Use the damn voice or text functions.
And I hate sitting around, twiddling my thumbs. I'll take care of our living arrangements. Night OPS can turn out a fucking disaster if you have no clue what you're up against. Get me NVGs if you expect us be running around narrow alleys or tunnels at that time; you have no experience in that field. I'm not in the mood to scrape you off the street.
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Listen up. I want to avoid unneccesary encounters if at all possible. We're outnumbered, and I don't even have my support to fall back on. You have neither America nor Russia. You can't expect any reinforcements; one wrong move, and the game is over.
And I still have way too much to do. Didn't Para-Medic tell you anything about survival? Or were you two too busy going on about Clint Eastwood?
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You have a reason for askin'? Or just for curiosity's sake?
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Curiosity. I measure a person by their sense of justice and loyalty. What if your friends betrayed you?
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Maybe you just got seasick.
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Loyalty means nothing. In the end it can shift from one thing to another as naturally as breathing. The only thing you can truly hope to stay loyal to is yourself, and even then you can't be certain from one day to the next.
Loyalty to yourself, then, no matter what the cost. The individual who can manage that is gifted indeed.
But to others it's only ever going to be seen as selfishness. How many people are 'loyal to their country' until someone threatens them or their family? It's only human nature.
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But doesn't loyalty include the willingness to kill those you love for the greater good?
'While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal, and expect his loyalty and devotion.'
Many would think loyalty was another word for 'giving up one's own ideals'.
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In the end it comes down to the way society expects you to behave. Loyalty to the State, "respectfully requiring obedience" as you put it, is all about organising the minds and actions of people toward the general direction that society believes to be correct.
If society changes, those ideals change, and though everyone may not agree with it, employing the power of words like 'loyalty' drive the force behind such ideals, regardless of whether they're wrong or not.
In many ways, 'loyalty' is no different to 'love'. Both are merely ideas.
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Tell me about it.
Gets kind of complicated if it's not society itself controlling people, but a group of people or even a single individual. No one should wield power so great they're able to force society into conformity; and probably sacrificing others along the way. Peace is not a natural state for human society, so you create it artificially by establishing laws. Law narrows down the rights of the individual; and can even equal the complete loss of freedom. For peace to persist, sacrifices must be made. But the problem is that people are happiest and in their natural element when there is struggle; which is why war has always been a constant in human history. Once there is 'peace', we get wound tight easily. And, like a rubber band, when wound too tight we break.
[Man he's kind of rambling here. SUP LIGHT BTW THIS GUY HERE WAS RULING THE WORLD BEHIND THE SCENES FOR LIKE...six months. It sucked; anarchy is way cooler ( ... )
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