Sixth Candelbram - Voice

[firstofthefallen]

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?

Comments

[firstofthefallen]

I agree. It is.

[calculatedfire]

How do you define that?

[firstofthefallen]

One must learn how to cope with other people. To know who is worth one's attention, and who is not. To know what is worth reacting to, and what is not.

[calculatedfire]

One can find value in people that is not immediately apparent.

[firstofthefallen]

And with that I agree.

This does not mean I should help them solely to ensure they might reach that value, or it might be clear. Rather, they are needed to make sure of this themselves.

[calculatedfire]

If you do not help others, no one has a reason to help you.

[firstofthefallen]

I have no need for the help of others.

[calculatedfire]

At this time.

[firstofthefallen]

Or most times.

[calculatedfire]

But, not all times?

[firstofthefallen]

Only once have I given someone true aid, and received their aid in turn.

And the once was enough.

[calculatedfire]

You also gain enemies by refusing to take others into account.

[firstofthefallen]

Enemies will always be with each person.

A few more makes little difference.

[calculatedfire]

Depending on the strength of the enemy, a single enemy more is sufficient.

[firstofthefallen]

On that I will agree.

But there are few who've eer had the power to challenge me. And most have come to my cause, or to the other cause I don't find vulgar.]

[In some iterations of the universes he's occupied. He's also gone through the versions where they side with Law and he dies, but he feels no reason to state that.]

[calculatedfire]

Again, that does not mean never.

[firstofthefallen]

And I agree.

If you think I don't realize there will come a day where I will meet an insurmountable enemy, you're mistaken.

And they will kill me. Just as the strong has the right over the weak to do.

[calculatedfire]

The confrontation then, is meaningless.

[firstofthefallen]

No. It's evolution.

The weak die. The strong survive. And the world changes.

It's how things should be, in order to ensure the survival of the fittest. It matters not if one person is wiped out or an entire species, it's how it must be.

[calculatedfire]

No, that is savagery.

[firstofthefallen]

And the natural world is often savage.

I don't see your point.

[calculatedfire]

Because people together have made a world that lives better than savagery.