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Topic | The leader of a rival martial arts school has killed your master |
ParanoidObsessive 11/30/19 4:43:36 PM #4: | NeoSioType posted... Your master realized long ago that both schools have perpetuated this cycle of hate for decades. You suspect he willingly walked in the ring and accepted his death in advance. If the problem is a cycle of revenge, and I cannot break it via inaction (because others will carry it on regardless), the only viable solution is the reverse - to engineer a revenge so destructive and complete that only one side survives, and the rivalry ends forever. So I go to the rival school, and poison their well with a slow-acting toxin that will enter their bloodstream undetected and kill them all before any of them realize they've been poisoned. And then I hunt down any survivors and murder them, their families, their children, their friends, and anyone who ever met them. This ultimately leads to one of two outcomes. Either my fellow students agree with my stance and support me, in which case only our school remains and the rivalry is ended because there's no more rival. Or my fellow students turn against me, seeing my methods as being too draconian and violent, in which case they are forced to join with the rival school to defeat me, thus ending the rivalry as they must band together against the far greater evil. Either way, I win. This also has the added benefit in that my actions don't actually violate my Master's wishes - I am not vowing revenge, I am acting logically and dispassionately to break the cycle of violence. I don't seek to punish the rivals for what they have done, I simply seek to eliminate them forever to stop them from ever doing it again. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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