His assumption was when you said theos and the pk did think others were below them, it had a negative connotation. This was based on his experience of how believing people are below yourself is typically described. Everyone makes assumptions about peoples’ meanings as you have already about a part of my other post:
His assumption would’ve been unreasonable if he assumed that you couldn’t have been arguing against something you supported before but it’s okay not to always assume that because that wasn’t necessarily the case with the given info
my input in all this tho is that magic isn’t bad nor good
humanity always destroys itself regardless if they have magic, or hyper advanced technology. we’re all gonna stick to our primitve mindsets cause it works-ish for the most part at least. this fact wont change anytime soon unless you’re immortal and straight up don’t give a heck
read a history book modern day liberal representative democracy is not exactly good (albeit an improvement over feudalism)
so does this mean self defense is “negative morality”? that taking a major economic hit to weather and prevent the worst effects of climate change is “negative morality”?
there’s nothing inherently negative about these statements. stuff like this happens so often in your day to day life that you don’t even notice it.
perhaps you decide to not have a dessert you really like because you know it’s unhealthy for you.
perhaps you shoplift from a store because, how else are you going to live to the next day? begging? maybe. but is that a risk you want to take?
perhaps you end up shooting someone who broke into your house, because you don’t know who that was, they could have wanted to kill you, and the fact that they started charging at you when they saw you wasn’t a good sign.
would you say you made the wrong decision in each of these scenarios?
this is entirely subjective. this is not universal.
any objective metric you have to sort things into either “good” or “bad” are
1: fuzzy and ultimately inaccurate when applied to a case by case basis
2: presuppose that human happiness is good, and that human suffering is bad
when you gain great power, human happiness and human suffering stop being that important to you personally. you have more important things to deal with, like killing that bastard durza, or getting more powerful. if a small town dies because of your actions, it’s a little sad, but it’s not that important, you have to kill durza to stop the world from being destroyed.
Things to consider:
1: The fastest way to get stronger is murder, especially those who also hold power.
2: WoM style magic means a non-negligible amount of humans gain the ability to fire missiles from their hands.
Even at level 1 you’re deadly to the average person (and every structure near you).
Can somebody tell me a single scenario where this goes well overall?
modern day liberal representative democracy is not exactly good (albeit an improvement over feudalism)
