Intrepid

Myriad Reality

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In any case, why does it matter to you how everyone labels you when it's really only your actions being judged?

@Techspert

Other people’s views of you matter a lot.

Myriad Reality

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Isn't "being in your right mind" totally a function of what we as a collective consider normal?

@Techspert

You can look at it that way. I just deem it as having logical flow of thoughts and actions. As opposed to, you know, taking pleasure in actively self-harmful things and/or being an absolute loose cannon purely for the sake of it.

Myriad Reality

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You seem really resistant to being considered a bad guy sometimes.

@Techspert

Only crazy people love that. Who in their right mind actually likes it?

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs*
Do all villains see life like that?

@Techspert

And that’s how we write it off, hmm. I’m simply offering you the insight.

Myriad Reality

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That's not my point. It's that relative to how big everything is, our lives don't mean all that much more.

@Techspert

No. But there is a bottom of the barrel.
*Motions around us*
And there are steps up after that.

Myriad Reality

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If you zoom out far enough, most all of us end up pretty insignificant.

@Techspert

Of course. I’m not tauting this just to class myself above everyone else. There are always bigger fish. We’ve seen a couple examples of that in recent history.

Myriad Reality

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Sounds like strength but in different words.

@Techspert

No.

Myriad Reality

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You never know. It takes one moment of stupid and then it's over; besides, just being stronger than the next guy doesn't mean you're better than him. And that applies whether the best you can do is knock him out or if you can literally start the apocalypse.

@Techspert

I’m not even implying violence, here. Or strength. Raw power means nothing to me. It’s our influence. You and I have incalculably larger influence over Existence as a whole than anyone else in this room. And I say this knowing that you are incalculably stronger than I am.

Myriad Reality

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It's super true. I think we're farther away from the base than you may guess.

@Techspert

It’s not where we’re from that matters. It’s what we do. I think that may be why you don’t play the game as efficiently as you could. At any given point, either one of us could change these people’s lives forever, for better or for worse. They are incapable of doing the same to us.

Myriad Reality

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Irrelevant to both, for the most part.

@Techspert

And that’s the part that simply is not true.