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Sixth Candelbram - Voice

What is strength to you, or what it is to be strong?

Alternatively, who is it that has right to rulership, or to command? Do you agree with the sentiment that those who are strong are superior and thus have greater rights than those who are weak?

And if that is the case: may the weak become strong?

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And yet they still may have less than others.

They do. But some talents are worth more than others.

That's true..but they would still have them where others may not. Maybe there is no truly strong or truly weak person then..

[Pardon Tohko as she muses to herself.]

How so?

There are. You're confounding yourself with unnecessary factors.

To be able to hunt is more important than to write. To be able to build a building more important than sculpting. There are trivialities, and in these we take joy, but they are not skills important for life.

How are they unnecessary?

That depends upon the person and where you live, of course.

The idea that you seem to not understand how some traits are inherently more needed than others.

No. To hunt and provide food will still outweigh the use and necessity to write no matter where you are.

Well, some traits are needed more than others. But it depends upon the person which things are more necessary than others.

Again, it depends upon the person. What if a person can only eat writing and not meat?

I see.

That is interesting.

[Because there are many creatures in his world, many figures of mythology, who can only feed and survive in esoteric ways. In bizarre ways, as dictated by their mythologies. He has to pause for a moment.]

I would say that, if that is the case, they are not counted among the weak but share it's traits. I will not say it is wrong to have weaknesses - some do have them - but some are more crippling then others. And when those are present they are inferior to others.

Equality is a lie.

..I will admit that some traits are more harming than others..but people can rise above those traits and overcome them usually. And if they can't, then they can improve themselves in other ways. I don't agree with you. Equality is not a lie.

Then you're naive.

As much good as people claim it might do, immeasurable amounts of what I would think people would consider evil have been done in the name of "equality".

Well, that just means that people have been throwing around words and ideas to justify what they're doing. It's not good that they are, but people do that sometimes.

Just as you are right now.

And what makes you think I'm doing terrible things?

Who said anything about terrible things.

I just meant you're throwing words around to justify what you think and do.

I'm not using them to justify what I think. That is how I think.

And everyone needs justification for how they think.

Whether you recognize it or not, it is justification.

..I think they way I do because I think it's the truth. Nothing more.

Then you're simply an idiot if you have nothing to base this truth on.

I do have something to base it on! All of the stories I have read and my observations of people are the basis for my thoughts!

And what you have to base it on is your justification.

Of course you believe something because you think it is true. That is how all believe.

But you do have to justify it, and do have justification for it. Do not claim you do not.

..It has been shown in stories, that while some are strong physically, they are weak mentally, and others that are weak physically are strong mentally. Things like this also happen in real life. So, since we all have things like that-areas that we are great in that others are terrible at-we are equal in that! Equality does exist.

..Am I making any sense?

Stories are stories. There are those who are also weak mentally and physically, and those who are strong in both. And these things too happen in real life. And there are differing degrees of how weak someone is in a weakness compared to others.

So no. Equality does not exist. It exists only in you trying to make everything a shade of gray. There are extremes and, not only this. There are only extremes.

How old are you, child? I sense you have not truly come to know the cruelty of the world as it is yet.

Stories can also become part of reality! And that's true too..but people can help each other overcome some weaknesses. People can teach others to be stronger mentally or physically. And, even if they work hard and aren't as strong as others, there are still skills that people who have terrible mental and physical strength could possess that other people don't.

..I am seventeen, but don't call me a child. I'm Tohko Amano, the book girl, and while I haven't seen every horror and bit of cruelty in the world, I have experienced some of it.

Only in part. However one who is taught to be physically or mentally strong by another can only be physically or mentally strong in the presence of that person. It is not a true strength.

And what skills of worth could they possess?

Only a fraction of it. And you will never fully understand that fraction. It's a flaw, and yet also an odd beauty, of humanity.

That's not true. If they're taught, they should be able to be strong or smart even when they're not in the presence of their teacher. And they could be great storytellers, painters, or singers..things like that! Skills like that are useful!

..And I don't think it's a flaw..and while I do probably only understand a small fraction, that doesn't mean that I'll never understand that fraction or the whole thing!

Art can be appreciated. Useful, however, is not necessarily correct. Singing can be, as it is the Ancient Common Tongue, but all others fall away. I appreciate art. But just because one is good at art does not mean they have value.

A fraction is still only a fraction.

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