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Hey, work smarter, not harder.Someone need to read Ender's Game
More like: the older you get, the lazier you get and the less optimal but easier option sounds better and better.
Hey, work smarter, not harder.Someone need to read Ender's Game
More like: the older you get, the lazier you get and the less optimal but easier option sounds better and better.
I've read Ender's Game. Don't try to just win the battle, you need to win the battle and all the ones that would ever come after it the first time around.Someone need to read Ender's Game
More like: the older you get, the lazier you get and the less optimal but easier option sounds better and better.
TFW ppl r recommending murder/genocide to solve dispute in the comment sectionI've read Ender's Game. Don't try to just win the battle, you need to win the battle and all the ones that would ever come after it the first time around.
"But the buggers were just misunderstood really!" only happens in books. In the current year things are bad and consistently getting worse because the people doing this shit to us are definitely not misunderstood and no amount of reasoning or tolerance helps, those are only achieving the opposite.
How about winning by not making the other lose? Wargame ring any bells? Ya not considering when the shoe is on the other foot?Don't try to just win the battle, you need to win the battle and all the ones that would ever come after it the first time around.
Could be a number of other cases, 1st contact is never easy."But the buggers were just misunderstood really!"
That's like, just your opinion, man.only happens in books
Some people are just crap. No culture or religion or race or class or upbringing or whatever you can think of are immune to this, all have varying degrees of crap people or the types of crappiness they are. A crap filter helps, the more stringent the better, but you need to learn sooner rather than later that no amount of sitting around a camp fire and singing Kumbya, my lord is going to magically fix the problem, the problem for most is irreconcilable and for the rest they need to start within, it's not your civic duty to save the world.TFW ppl r recommending murder/genocide to solve dispute in the comment section
How about winning by not making the other lose? Wargame ring any bells? Ya not considering when the shoe is on the other foot?
Could be a number of other cases, 1st contact is never easy.
You read any other xenofiction?
That's like, just your opinion, man.
Kinda myopic view to take as a general standard - "there's never any misunderstanding, commit to genocide every time there's violent conflict between sentients ever" is really one of the takes ever (read: stupid).I've read Ender's Game. Don't try to just win the battle, you need to win the battle and all the ones that would ever come after it the first time around.
"But the buggers were just misunderstood really!" only happens in books. In the current year things are bad and consistently getting worse because the people doing this shit to us are definitely not misunderstood and no amount of reasoning or tolerance helps, those are only achieving the opposite.
Yeah, that's more what I was getting at. It was funny to me that they went from "We demand you kill them all!" and getting told "no" only to later say "You said you were going to kill them all!" and being told do it themselves if they want it so badly.I'm sure the kid will have something to say. Shortly after I posted my last comment, it occurred to me that the fire user from Dahlia could also have been pushed around by the elders of his tribe. I see this as one of two warring tribes, one of which is obviously aggressive, who were reliant on swords and bows suddenly found themselves in possession of an artillery gun. Since they initiated the war, the younger and able-bodied warriors and tribe officials would've had more backing amongst themselves, making it impossible for a child to refuse their wishes despite his powers, e.g., threatening members of the boy's family, or the family themselves could've been exerting their influence on him, and pressured him into joining the fight.
More to the point, it makes no sense for them to believe that anyone would simply comply with their demands just because they were the oldest members of the tribe, and they bark. Aesir touched on it, that it seemed they were using their seniority to throw their weight around, because they believed it gave them clout and the right to talk down to others as if they were there to serve them. Like the man said, they're welcome to come up with solutions, or do the deed themselves.
If you want clarification:Kinda myopic view to take as a general standard - "there's never any misunderstanding, commit to genocide every time there's violent conflict between sentients ever" is really one of the takes ever (read: stupid).
Sometimes terrible organizations need to be destroyed as thoroughly as possible, because they simply are terrible. Sometimes you need to put your foot down and say as best you can "no more".
But not every time. It's not like governments should commit to slaughtering everyone involved in every protest in which there are rioters ever - it's stupid and doesn't work and anyone with functioning braincells knows it.
It's not laziness. It's practicality and selfishness.Someone need to read Ender's Game
More like: the older you get, the lazier you get and the less optimal but easier option sounds better and better.