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Loki (gloriouspurpose) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-07-06 02:18:00

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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

The second president of the United States

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	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 06:31 am UTC (link)
	You don't say. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 06:32 am UTC (link)
	Brother, stop this, now. I refuse to believe that all goodness is gone in you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 06:34 am UTC (link)
	Do you know what? I don't disagree. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 06:36 am UTC (link)
	Then we are agreed, and you will stop this nonsense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 06:38 am UTC (link)
	I agree that there is "good in my yet" or whatever similar cliche you'd like to put forth. However, I believe that you and I don't believe that good means quite the same thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 06:39 am UTC (link)
	What would your definition be? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 06:40 am UTC (link)
	That one should do whatever is necessary to prolong the well-being of humanity. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 06:41 am UTC (link)
	'Whatever is necessary', brother? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 06:43 am UTC (link)
	Tell me, with all their weapons and all their wars that they aren't on a path of self-destruction. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 06:44 am UTC (link)
	And what would you do, brother? Hurry them along? Make them your thralls? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:01 am UTC (link)
	Save them from themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:02 am UTC (link)
	That is not our place, brother. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:04 am UTC (link)
	And how humane is it to watch them die? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:04 am UTC (link)
	Their mistakes are theirs to make. Not ours. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:05 am UTC (link)
	I don't intend to make them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:06 am UTC (link)
	I will stop you again, if I must. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:07 am UTC (link)
	Why don't you stop them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Stop them from what? Living their lives? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Open your eyes (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:10 am UTC (link)
	And how do you propose to end the suffering? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:13 am UTC (link)
	By ending the oppression they're already enduring. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wields_mjolnir 2013-07-06 07:14 am UTC (link)
	How? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gloriouspurpose 2013-07-06 07:16 am UTC (link)
	They're trying to destroy one government to instill another. We have the ability to do it for them, to finish what they can't do themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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