[quote=@Tank O The Lake]
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Considering how much of human media depicts the collapse of love, whether it be erotic, romantic, or platonic, I find such sentiments [i]laughably[/i] inauthentic.  Don't get me wrong, I agree with you on the idealism part, but it's like humans have never once looked in the mirror whenever they say that.

*I look out over the city, and point to the northeast horizon.*

In North Union, in between where Philly and NYC used to be, there's a skyscraper over a mile tall.  They call it Union Tower--creative, I know.  400 short years ago, they struggled to make any building taller than, oh, eighty feet.  In the last 300 years, they went from crude ballistic rockets used to bomb cities to relativistic arkships capable of ferrying tens of thousands of people to other stars.  When they obliterated their previous civilization with their bombs, it took them less than fifty years to claw their way back to their old standard of living.

These people [i]have[/i] potential, but they don't understand it and they don't understand themselves.  They never will, not in an environment like this.
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And yet, though you show us all the horrors of death and war, there [i]is[/i] a force more powerful. Tell me, what is it that gives death its power? Why do humans rule by death?