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[5thchild]

Imagine a world where you can live happily forever. With no insecurities in yours or other people's hearts, no hatred and no confusion. Everyone would understand each other, no one would perish and every flaw in every living being would be complemented by the strengths in others.

In exchange for that, you’d have to lose one thing, however. The one thing that brings you great pain and yet you seem to cherish so much: individuality. You’d all be united as one being and nobody would exist singularly, but merely as part of a whole. "Existing" would mean "existing for the whole" rather than yourself or few selected ones.

Someone called this "Instrumentality Project" and the same people saw this as evolution, close to the power of what you would call "god". Would you accept it? Would you prefer eternal happiness with no loss or pain, or your individuality that eventually leads to that?

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[5thchild]

Did you think they also "sucked" at first, your friends?

[hackitude]

No. Well, okay, maybe one of them. And it turned out my first instinct was right, anyway. He's still a massive toolface douchebag.

But I thought the others were varying levels of intimidatingly cool/terrifying. Anyway. I said *some* of humanity sucks. Not all. I'm not completely cynical. Humans do some pretty amazing things, too. But then you go on the internet and it's like... equal parts cool and completely and utterly terrible.

[5thchild]

I'm sorry to hear that. [ that he is a massive toolface douchebag wow humans and their adjectives are fun ]

Do you think others would feel the same towards you?

[hackitude]

Yeah well. The less said on him, the better.

What, that I'm varying levels of intimidatingly cool and/or terrifying? ... Prrrobably... not.

[5thchild]

What if they think you aren't deserving of powers, either. That you "suck"?

i'm sorry this is soooo late. sudden workload!!

[hackitude]

Hey, I know for a fact that there are plenty of people out there in this world who think I suck. But that's life.

It's alright~!

[5thchild]

So that is fine with you? Do you disagree with them, or agree?

[hackitude]

I dunno. I don't like to spend time trying to change someone's opinion of me unless it's really important. It's usually a waste of time. So I don't tend to waste too much time thinking about whether I'm fine with that or not, since it's something I can't change anyway.

Anyway, I don't think any one person can be all suck all the time. I'm sure even serial killers must have one person they're nice to. And I bet even the purest of superheroes has done something he's not proud of. So, yeah, the people who think I suck would probably have reason to think so. And the people who think I don't would also probably have reason to think so.

[5thchild]

You can't change? I'm sure you can; that's what lilin are the best at.

That's quite a bright look on the issue, however. I'm glad it's not something that weights on your mind.

[hackitude]

People can change, sure. If they want to. But it's harder to change someone else's opinion of you. People are judgmental. Case in point: me, this whole conversation.

Is it? I don't know. I think it would be easier if I just believed in pure good and evil sometimes. I want to, some days. But I know it's not really that simple.