(07-18-2023, 03:26 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: In the end they will end up the same. Dead physically, or dead spiritually and enslaved. When we kill each other, we are killing the only chance we may have had to bring down the beast. Killing each other is doing the will of the beast.
We don't have to love each other to work together with my enemy mine.
Some of them are too busy feeding the beast to ever consider trying to bring it down. What do we do with them? Hold hands and sing Kumbaya? Invite them into the drum circle for a little glad-handing?
Fact is, the ones trying to kill you, they're the "enemy", and they will never be amenable to working together until either you come around to their way of thinking, or else beat them into submission.
While they're still trying to kill you, all you can really do is either kill them right back, or die yourself.
That's the soul-crushing part.
I'm from that old, outmoded school of thought that thinks "if they're gonna kill you anyway, then you may as well take as many of them with you as you can, to make life easier on the next guy". In other words, at least get a few sammiches while they're making a meal of YOU.
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