03-24-2021, 06:46:44 AM
Kellensea, seemingly glad to have someone who isn't contesting her points by bad-faith rhetoric, keeps talking.
...I don't know why these people are like this. They're like "And that's why Kellensea is bad" and then I give them facts, and then they say "And that's why Kellensea is bad" again. I guess you could say it's because facts don't care about their feelings and they're trying to spare their own feelings from facts. Hell, I could say that, I guess... but thought terminating clichés aren't really... fun to use for me. There's like, only a couple for any given situation and one of them is always "facts don't care about your feelings". Like, they're practical I guess for pandering to audiences, but I'm more single-target, and thought terminating clichés don't win arguments except in the performative sense. Aside from that, I can't really pander to an audience that made up its mind already, you know? It's like... you saw that Gary guy, right? He heavily implies my clothing is a problem and should change it, and then backtracks the moment I call him on his shit and starts denying that that's what he said. Ranma does the same shit, most of them do. They don't listen to my arguments, they just default to "adventurer lady has S-l-i-i-i-i-g-h-t-l-y different values, so she's evil." Like, there are a great deal of problems with the idea of objective evil anyway. Why is exhibiting hyper-pro-social behavior the end-all-be-all of what is good to these people? I've always been like this, so why should they hate and fear me for it?
Kellensea sits back down, and pauses for a bit.
It's like... I don't know what it's like. It's discriminatory, certainly, but that doesn't feel like the worst of it. It's like they're unable or unwilling to consider that the universe might not revolve around their species and their moral framework, or hell, ANY particular species and moral framework. It's like they need a hierarchy because if there wasn't one, how would they convince themselves that they're good? But no, THEY'RE the chosen ones with the mythological importance, and anyone who defies them to find a reason that they're more important than any other life is to be excommunicated from the circle.
...I don't know why these people are like this. They're like "And that's why Kellensea is bad" and then I give them facts, and then they say "And that's why Kellensea is bad" again. I guess you could say it's because facts don't care about their feelings and they're trying to spare their own feelings from facts. Hell, I could say that, I guess... but thought terminating clichés aren't really... fun to use for me. There's like, only a couple for any given situation and one of them is always "facts don't care about your feelings". Like, they're practical I guess for pandering to audiences, but I'm more single-target, and thought terminating clichés don't win arguments except in the performative sense. Aside from that, I can't really pander to an audience that made up its mind already, you know? It's like... you saw that Gary guy, right? He heavily implies my clothing is a problem and should change it, and then backtracks the moment I call him on his shit and starts denying that that's what he said. Ranma does the same shit, most of them do. They don't listen to my arguments, they just default to "adventurer lady has S-l-i-i-i-i-g-h-t-l-y different values, so she's evil." Like, there are a great deal of problems with the idea of objective evil anyway. Why is exhibiting hyper-pro-social behavior the end-all-be-all of what is good to these people? I've always been like this, so why should they hate and fear me for it?
Kellensea sits back down, and pauses for a bit.
It's like... I don't know what it's like. It's discriminatory, certainly, but that doesn't feel like the worst of it. It's like they're unable or unwilling to consider that the universe might not revolve around their species and their moral framework, or hell, ANY particular species and moral framework. It's like they need a hierarchy because if there wasn't one, how would they convince themselves that they're good? But no, THEY'RE the chosen ones with the mythological importance, and anyone who defies them to find a reason that they're more important than any other life is to be excommunicated from the circle.
I am the They who says it!