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


*Sighs*
Do all villains see life like that?
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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.


That's not my point. It's that relative to how big everything is, our lives don't mean all that much more.
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No.


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


Sounds like strength but in different words.
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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.


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


It's super true. I think we're farther away from the base than you may guess.
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But how relevant is each game to the opposite party?


Irrelevant to both, for the most part.
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But it isn’t the game.


That game is about as relevant to us as theirs is to them.
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They aren’t playing the game.


They're all in their own game.
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Yeah, that’s subjective importance. What matters to small people doesn’t matter to the whole.


What makes them any smaller than anyone else?
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