[ kanaya slides her glasses down her nose, staring down over the rims, knitting her fingers together and setting her jaw. ]
You may not go out with the intention of shouting them down, but you do drown them out. Volume will do that. Telling me that I should speak louder in response will only devolve the discourse into a din that loses the message entirely.
Your pet cause may well be vital to your world, but you need to adapt to your surroundings, adapt your cause to your surroundings. Telling everyone they need out of here so they can help first does elevate it as more pressing than what anyone else fights for. I means that, however you may say that other causes may be more important, you will never compromise those priorities for them, but you would have others compromise theirs.
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You may not go out with the intention of shouting them down, but you do drown them out. Volume will do that. Telling me that I should speak louder in response will only devolve the discourse into a din that loses the message entirely.
Your pet cause may well be vital to your world, but you need to adapt to your surroundings, adapt your cause to your surroundings. Telling everyone they need out of here so they can help first does elevate it as more pressing than what anyone else fights for. I means that, however you may say that other causes may be more important, you will never compromise those priorities for them, but you would have others compromise theirs.
It's the difference between intention and effect.