"Oh, those guys don't deserve the time of day," Dido says with scorn. "I guess Brye and Rani were criticizing us for smack-talking the factions that have ideals? But why should we care a bit about folks willing to start wars and destroy people's lives because of Ideals?"
The thing is, that's what people start wars for since the beginning of time. Ideals. Well, also food, property, land, materials, but mostly ideals.
Don't you fight for your personal ideals as well?
I fought in the original Divine Crusaders conflict, if you remember that. And believe it or not, I never hold it personally against them, eventhough they shoot at me. That's because I'm a professional soldier. I won't haunt in vengeance the guy who shoot me in combat. The guy who kill me in my sleep for my insurance money though, I'll haunt the shit out of him.
That's because, that's what being a soldier mean. You sign yourself up to get shot, so people who don't sign themselves to get shot don't get shot. I'm not saying this because I'm a hero who want to sacrifice myself for humanity or something, no, in fact it's the opposite of it. It's because it's in the contract. When you sign up to be a professional soldier, you lose your right to complain when you got shot in war. And if you don't like it, you can resign.
And DC soldiers, and soldiers from every modern countries, know that. That's why there's conduct of wars. That's why forcing people to fight is wrong. That's why shooting civilians is wrong. Because those civilians, don't sign the contract-to-get-shot.
"Sure, sure," she says quietly. "That's the ethos of warfare: professional armies that sip tea and salute and do all their fighting and killing away from the civvies."
She sips some more coffee. "A shame that's not what happens in real life," she spits bitterly. "Tell me Walt; how many lives have we destroyed during our last few sorties?"
And how many lives would be destroyed if we don't do our last few sorties?
Well, there's potential that there's actually less lives destroyed, you never know. Who know, maybe us never stopping the Gebians would had usher us to a golden and prosperous peaceful age as pyramid builders.
"Yeah, yeah," Dido says. "I'm not planning on whining or sulking in my tent or something counterproductive swill like that. It's just...."
Dido sighs and leans back. "Our fighting and shooting and swordplay and giant robot smashing has been necessary. As necessary as a root canal. But it's not noble or glorious. And for a while, I think we forgot that... I think I forgot that. And maybe that's what Brye and Rani were really calling us out for."
What a bunch of kids! They said and did that because they're kids who knows nothing about the world operates. And they're going to die for it.
I'm in despair! How kids can easily get super powerful mech, thought they're invincible, and will die because of misjudging their strength, had left me in despair!
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Don't you fight for your personal ideals as well?
I fought in the original Divine Crusaders conflict, if you remember that. And believe it or not, I never hold it personally against them, eventhough they shoot at me. That's because I'm a professional soldier. I won't haunt in vengeance the guy who shoot me in combat. The guy who kill me in my sleep for my insurance money though, I'll haunt the shit out of him.
That's because, that's what being a soldier mean. You sign yourself up to get shot, so people who don't sign themselves to get shot don't get shot. I'm not saying this because I'm a hero who want to sacrifice myself for humanity or something, no, in fact it's the opposite of it. It's because it's in the contract. When you sign up to be a professional soldier, you lose your right to complain when you got shot in war. And if you don't like it, you can resign.
And DC soldiers, and soldiers from every modern countries, know that. That's why there's conduct of wars. That's why forcing people to fight is wrong. That's why shooting civilians is wrong. Because those civilians, don't sign the contract-to-get-shot.
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"Sure, sure," she says quietly. "That's the ethos of warfare: professional armies that sip tea and salute and do all their fighting and killing away from the civvies."
She sips some more coffee. "A shame that's not what happens in real life," she spits bitterly. "Tell me Walt; how many lives have we destroyed during our last few sorties?"
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Well, there's potential that there's actually less lives destroyed, you never know. Who know, maybe us never stopping the Gebians would had usher us to a golden and prosperous peaceful age as pyramid builders.
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Dido sighs and leans back. "Our fighting and shooting and swordplay and giant robot smashing has been necessary. As necessary as a root canal. But it's not noble or glorious. And for a while, I think we forgot that... I think I forgot that. And maybe that's what Brye and Rani were really calling us out for."
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I'm in despair! How kids can easily get super powerful mech, thought they're invincible, and will die because of misjudging their strength, had left me in despair!
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Dido takes a deep breath. "AHHHH–!"