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caixiaoshan · 2006-12-07, 12:10

what Lelouch believes and what the Britannia Emperor believes can co-exist to a certain extend.

in fact, looking directly into Britannia Emperor's point of view, there is nothing wrong with it, except that it is opposite to popular believes. but isn't it true that for humans, their goal of life is to be better than others? even those trying to achieve equality, are trying to control the world, thus trying to be superior to the world in some way. even when people argue about something, they are trying to be better, to take control...humans are born to compete, to achieve inequality in some form, that is the truth...forget all those common sense...they by themselves don't make sense...that's why they have to be common in order to make sense...^O^

what Lelouch is against seems to be whatever the Emperor believes, but step back some, and we might consider him fighting against the limiting of people's opportunity to compete, as he said: the ones that have the right to shoot are the ones who have the preparation to be shot. This statement is basically saying that, if one wants to compete, he must compete with opponents with same opportunities(equipments). it also justifies fighting: if you are prepared to be shot by your opponent, you can shoot him...which then justifies Lelouch's believe that the way to end war can be having someone to win. a fairly good example would be gundam SEED, as always...The ArchAngel Terrorists had stopped many major battles to prevent deaths, while those major battles are the ones that could end the war...so they actually caused more deaths and sufferings in the future...If no one wins, peace would be short, as long as the opposite sides exists.

i think someone on the first page had said that the believe that the way to end fight is to have someone winning is wrong...it might be an unpleasant believe to most people, i do realize that. but is it really wrong? is having someone winning really the bad way to end fight? or maybe we should ask, is there any other way to TRUELY end a fight?

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caixiaoshan Member Join Date: Dec 2006	what Lelouch believes and what the Britannia Emperor believes can co-exist to a certain extend. in fact, looking directly into Britannia Emperor's point of view, there is nothing wrong with it, except that it is opposite to popular believes. but isn't it true that for humans, their goal of life is to be better than others? even those trying to achieve equality, are trying to control the world, thus trying to be superior to the world in some way. even when people argue about something, they are trying to be better, to take control...humans are born to compete, to achieve inequality in some form, that is the truth...forget all those common sense...they by themselves don't make sense...that's why they have to be common in order to make sense...^O^ what Lelouch is against seems to be whatever the Emperor believes, but step back some, and we might consider him fighting against the limiting of people's opportunity to compete, as he said: the ones that have the right to shoot are the ones who have the preparation to be shot. This statement is basically saying that, if one wants to compete, he must compete with opponents with same opportunities(equipments). it also justifies fighting: if you are prepared to be shot by your opponent, you can shoot him...which then justifies Lelouch's believe that the way to end war can be having someone to win. a fairly good example would be gundam SEED, as always...The ArchAngel Terrorists had stopped many major battles to prevent deaths, while those major battles are the ones that could end the war...so they actually caused more deaths and sufferings in the future...If no one wins, peace would be short, as long as the opposite sides exists. i think someone on the first page had said that the believe that the way to end fight is to have someone winning is wrong...it might be an unpleasant believe to most people, i do realize that. but is it really wrong? is having someone winning really the bad way to end fight? or maybe we should ask, is there any other way to TRUELY end a fight? Last edited by caixiaoshan; 2006-12-07 at 12:13. Reason: spelling error