Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita - Ch. 81 - Greed

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Though I want to disagree with this lunatic, I can't help but also agree with the opinion that we are easier to remember bad things than a good thing. In life, in history, or maybe in learning, we remember the mistakes or bad things much faster than a correct or good thing.
 
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Though I want to disagree with this lunatic, I can't help but also agree with the opinion that we are easier to remember bad things than a good thing. In life, in history, or maybe in learning, we remember the mistakes or bad things much faster than a correct or good thing.
While that's true, I don't see it being worth eternal suffering after death as is apparently happening to his idol Trismegistus by his own admission. Did he just not connect that part to himself or something?
 
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While that's true, I don't see it being worth eternal suffering after death as is apparently happening to his idol Trismegistus by his own admission. Did he just not connect that part to himself or something?
No, it's just I read MTL's China Novel, and the racist part about foreigners is so hard to make me read. It's like, nobody is China alliance in the novel. Like every country wants to destroy them.

I agree that what Japan did in WW2 is so horrible that even I can't accept it, but it was more than 60+ years ago, and the majority of the people who joined the war died and were punished. It is like China only accepts all Japanese people who died to give them forgiveness. All because they only learn bad things about Japan. It is not like all Japanese at that time wanted to go to war, and not all can't disobey orders from the military.
 
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Though I want to disagree with this lunatic, I can't help but also agree with the opinion that we are easier to remember bad things than a good thing. In life, in history, or maybe in learning, we remember the mistakes or bad things much faster than a correct or good thing.
I disagree. We remember far more heroic myths than villainous ones.

If I were to name the one [villain] most known in the world right now, I would pick a certain rejected painter. That guy existed barely a single generation or 2 ago (using proper generations where someone must have lived out a lifespan, and not the real definitions for the word), super recent.
If I were to think about the oldest ones I can think of, I probably get quite a few still, like trickster-gods or assholes like zeus. But even those are just ancillary to the actual heroes (illead, herakles, etc), or at the very least just one among many (as loki is to the rest of that pantheon). And arguably those myths aren't even about villains, but merely powerful assholes.

Returning to actual heinous villains (and not just mean-spirited gods that aren't actually performing evil en-masse so much as just causing a tiny localized tragedy), I can only think of some inbred royalties merely hundreds of years ago. Beyond that I am drawing blanks.

So no, when it comes to being remembered through prosperity, the "good" guys are in a clear majority. Even if only because the story is through their own eyes (or someone near them) while what actually makes it noteworthy enough to have been remembered was their sheer power/feats (aka the story & storytelling).
 
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theres a disturbed song i think fits
best fate to give him is to erase hes name and only talk about those who stopped him and those who died because of him
 
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best fate to give him is to erase hes name and only talk about those who stopped him and those who died because of him
and fortunately theres an army of candy to support Fran and Excalibark solokilling the chimera with mana refills. Cant become infamous if your plan encounters an outside context problem before the Profit stage
 
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Apparently some unknown band?
Huh, good catch! I was actually thinking of exactly that king who inspired that more recent spin-off's story (among some other kings) when I mentioned those royalties. But had indeed forgotten about the spin-off itself (though arguably that one is more modern than the moustache guy, if you count his birth as the year his myth was created, instead of the years when he did the stuff).

I imagine genghis khan might be argued as a villain too, but I have never heard of any first-hand sources able to depict if he was truly evil, or merely paving the road to hell (for his enemies) with good intentions (for his allies) and then dropping the ball making his allies tumble down that same road too (by failing to solidify the inheritance-rights; which is arguably the sole thing that makes all his other acts arguably evil and not merely acts of conquering).
 

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