Look, I get Fives's motivations. I get your motivations, but it is exhausting trying to convince you that I'm--
I'm not psychic, man.
When you argue, ferverntly, that the only reasons that I object to you erasing millions of people's lives is because I'm obscene, Because I can't be bothered to do anything about it, because I'm selfish and limited, because I think it's fine to deliberately allow generations of torture to continue, and because I'm too pleased with my own noble abstention to help--
How am I supposed to magically get from that, that you understand for one second that what you're doing isn't the moral absolute here?
On the other hand, you must have some mad psychic skills, because you got from "Everyone who does this shit has a justification for their actions." Straight to: "Everyone who has ever done this shit has had a delusional justification and all of them have committed crimes of exactly equal magnitude and I'm so smug that I know all about it, and what's more, every horrible world is justified because suffering is noble!"
Without me ever actually saying that.
Ultimately, you're a universe ending whatever, and I'm basically one of the nobodies who'd just end up erased if this ever happened in my world. So I can't stop myself from like-- not wanting you to do that. And I can't stop myself from thinking it's wrong, and that there are better ways of doing this than just deleting them all.
But whatever. I have my own deal. You save the kids, I'll save the rest.
And all that other stuff? Yeah, you wanna argue with someone about that, you can just build a straw man in your bedroom and put whatever words you want into it's mouth.
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Look, I get Fives's motivations. I get your motivations, but it is exhausting trying to convince you that I'm--
I'm not psychic, man.
When you argue, ferverntly, that the only reasons that I object to you erasing millions of people's lives is because I'm obscene, Because I can't be bothered to do anything about it, because I'm selfish and limited, because I think it's fine to deliberately allow generations of torture to continue, and because I'm too pleased with my own noble abstention to help--
How am I supposed to magically get from that, that you understand for one second that what you're doing isn't the moral absolute here?
On the other hand, you must have some mad psychic skills, because you got from "Everyone who does this shit has a justification for their actions." Straight to: "Everyone who has ever done this shit has had a delusional justification and all of them have committed crimes of exactly equal magnitude and I'm so smug that I know all about it, and what's more, every horrible world is justified because suffering is noble!"
Without me ever actually saying that.
Ultimately, you're a universe ending whatever, and I'm basically one of the nobodies who'd just end up erased if this ever happened in my world. So I can't stop myself from like-- not wanting you to do that. And I can't stop myself from thinking it's wrong, and that there are better ways of doing this than just deleting them all.
But whatever. I have my own deal. You save the kids, I'll save the rest.
And all that other stuff? Yeah, you wanna argue with someone about that, you can just build a straw man in your bedroom and put whatever words you want into it's mouth.