explosivecombat: (Someone needs to listen more carefully)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote2014-04-08 08:35 pm

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[...and it seems it's time for another round of Horribly Inappropriate Questions, with your host: This Asshole.]

You know, a while ago I posited to the network that this world is based around battle culture – admittedly a softer, watered-down version of it, but battle culture nonetheless. One's power is assumed based on the strength of their personal army; one's social status is determined by how many gym leaders they've managed to defeat, or how easily they can crush those who stand in the way of what they want. It's interesting to me that such a society should likewise be based around a message of love, peace and tolerance; one would think that for the sheer amount of destruction that everyone's carrying around within arm's distance, this place would have dissolved into anarchy long ago.

Equally interesting is the stance on war that most seem to have taken here; even the locals seem opposed to it, overall. I have to wonder why – what it is about this place in particular that makes the idea of war and conflict so abhorrent to all within it.

Ah, but it's entirely likely that it's a matter of points of view, isn't it? I'm from a militaristic society, personally, so war and conflict seem to be the natural state of things – are most nations generally pacifistic like this? Or is this abnormal even by your standards as one of the..."foreigners", I believe they like to call us?

I'm interested in answers, though I can take or leave identities; answer anonymously if you wish, but even if you don't, you know what they say about glass houses.


[...You know, there are some things that never change. Yes, Kimblee, everyone here probably does get mad about genocide; either way, happy birthday, you crazy son of a bitch. If this is how you're going to spend this evening, you are more than welcome to do so.]
doitrockapella: (REVEAL ❖ it's everything and nothing)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2014-04-09 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
It rests on the premise that I wouldn't know it in the first place if you weren't a man of your word. Our arrangement means something to you. That means my interest in him probably means something to you, too.

In the interest of not overcomplicating things: I choose to believe you when you say he's safe. Beyond ensuring that...maybe it's not my place to intervene.
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[personal profile] doitrockapella 2014-04-09 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more just that I've had to accept that I'm not always going to get my way.
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[personal profile] doitrockapella 2014-04-09 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It is my decision. What I mean is, it's a different decision than I think I would've made at another time in my life, and I'm cognizant of that. There's more informing my decision than simply the calculus of "I don't like something, therefore I should fix it, and it's my right to do so because...because" now.

It's still not something I find very easy, but it's my decision, there's no doubt of that.