Everyone are dicks to everyone else. That's just human nature. Though, do you think we shouldn't be dicks to Wulgaru? Decepticons? Indalphs? Should we consider their point of view and emphatize with them?
Oh, believe me when I say if there's someone I spend my time belittling the most, it's myself. There's never a day without I'm beating myself up about how egregriously worthless I am.
But maybe other people aren't spending their time doing that. Can you tell me your observation about their belittlement of those who doesn't deserve to be belittled?
[And because of the semi-unrestricted nature of the UG's combat logs, Fyra is able to display the UG's many trash-talking moments through a holographic projection from her palm. Not only that, but the instances where enemies are not taken seriously, or joked/snarked about are brought up too.
But it's not every single enemy the UG has faced: the thing that the foes in all these pieces of footage have in common are that they are human/sentient, and/or their backgrounds were shrouded in mystery, and remain a mystery to the UG to this day.
Of particular note in these are Vlaams Leger members, Leos, the UE, the Wulgaru, the Balmarians, and the SSR before they were confirmed to be friendly.
Strangely, there's also a piece from one Goddess who claims she was accused of being a school-bomber by a UG member just because she had her hood on for mysterious effect.]
"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.
That's true. Why do we let them take those mechs away again? Isn't those literally Unity Group property? If this is in literally any other place that wouldn't fly at all.
It'd be like, you're working in an office, and then one day you say "Hey, I don't like working data entry it turned out" and you resign, and you bring your company workstation out with you.
Interesting. I have my own personal thought on them, which I will tell you soon no matter how much you will complain but I'd like to hear your opinion first.
Do you think we should have considered their point of view or rethink about them? By them I mean those who you highlighted. Leos. The Wulgaru.
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She sighs. "Their accusations cut deep too; has the Unity Group really been acting like a bunch of dicks to everyone else?"
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[If Setsuko has any immediate thoughts about it, she doesn't share them. For now.]
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Unity Group's, I mean. Not yours personally.
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Hey, are you planning a desertion as well?
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But I do not believe they are entirely wrong.
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But there is a tendency of belittling your enemies and anyone who disagrees with you. They are right about that.
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She holds off on revealing her observation for now, because there's something more important than that...]
Do you mean... you believe everyone that they have done this to deserved it?
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I'm not even sure how did you gather that from what I was saying.
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If you believe that your enemies deserved being looked down upon regardless of who they were, my observations would not benefit you.
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It's like saying, "If you believe cats shouldn't be kicked, my observation on people who kick cats would not benefit you."
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[And because of the semi-unrestricted nature of the UG's combat logs, Fyra is able to display the UG's many trash-talking moments through a holographic projection from her palm. Not only that, but the instances where enemies are not taken seriously, or joked/snarked about are brought up too.
But it's not every single enemy the UG has faced: the thing that the foes in all these pieces of footage have in common are that they are human/sentient, and/or their backgrounds were shrouded in mystery, and remain a mystery to the UG to this day.
Of particular note in these are Vlaams Leger members, Leos, the UE, the Wulgaru, the Balmarians, and the SSR before they were confirmed to be friendly.
Strangely, there's also a piece from one Goddess who claims she was accused of being a school-bomber by a UG member just because she had her hood on for mysterious effect.]
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But I'd prefer if they didn't take a one of a kind machine with a mysterious power with them. Power that some of our enemies are after.
But then, I'm not the one to talk here, right?
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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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It'd be like, you're working in an office, and then one day you say "Hey, I don't like working data entry it turned out" and you resign, and you bring your company workstation out with you.
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Do you think we should have considered their point of view or rethink about them? By them I mean those who you highlighted. Leos. The Wulgaru.
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The Wulgaru saw humans as prey. Leos Klein threatened the world for his own ends.
Yet, members of the former contributed to the defense of the Earth Sphere. The latter, while unstable, was your ally before.
Even if they had to be stopped... as a whole, neither were as simple as black or white.