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windupaidoneus · 6 months ago

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now some people may not like to hear it but even the worst people who exist are still people & there is no human being who has More right than others to decide whether others deserve to live or die (does not mean i personally condemn murder in self defense or anything of the sort or killing fascists or whatever i'm just saying as a baseline This Is How it Is) & this is why the death penalty is not a good thing no matter how good & trustworthy the people in any government might be. people on average also deserve the chance to learn to do better. & no, someone who's been forcefed propaganda their entire life will not let go of that deeply entrenched mindset so easily, it's not particularly unrealistic & it absolutely sucks to deal with but in the context of tangibly working toward world peace it's also not an issue to try & help such people both in material ways & in helping them learn better rather than cut them down or abandon them to a grim fate. all this to say that's why i don't think garlemald is written badly, as unpleasant as the experience might be. walks off the stage

#ffposting #also if you hate garlemald's writing THIS much but like emet-selch i think theres a disconnect there i just dont understand.#like he made it that way. you do understand this is all because of him right. maybe you should be more upset about that.#garlemald is very uncomfortable & the real life parallels it draws make it a very very touchy Thing to deal with #but i do not think it is handled badly.#their supremacy is entirely gone by the time of edw the people there have known nothing but propaganda #the populares are known to be a minority. people like cid or jenomis aren't that common. this is why they get along #the propaganda is such that even occupied domans like asahi fell for it & feel absolutely nothing for their kin #thats what propaganda does. there is absolutely a degree of responsibility regarding what they do & i would never say otherwise #however the idea that we should let them die & not get a chance to rebuild after theyve lost everything (again) is like. huh.#when you want to work toward world peace in a meaningful way you cant just abandon anyone like that.#like thats a whole people. they suck! but it is not immutable & they deserve the opportunity to do better like any other #id much rather they face retribution for their actions in meaningful ways including working toward reparations #wrt all the peoples the empire occupied than to round them up to kill them or worse let them die to the telophoroi #OR to becoming blasphemies. that would make things so extremely worse.#i just dont understand how you can have sympathy for jullus when he was just like everyone else at first #but you want to leave the rest of them to die. & i dont get how you can like emet & want them to die.#like he fucking did this its a pretty notable very fucking bad thing that he did. no doubt varis has made it worse #but varis was in power for like 2 years at best.#that emet was playing a role & did not actually believe in or care about what he was doing does not erase that he did it #& i personally find it hypocritical to like him if you balk at the idea of garlemald restoration. clears throat #i believe in killing fascists but i also dont believe in punitive justice #& by the time of edw garlean civilians do not hold the systemic power they once mightve #which i think is also important. their entire country is in shambles.#if anything its the ideal opportunity for them all to start anew & learn better. shed their preconceptions as one might say #that said i still skip garlemald cutscenes bc i dont need cunts calling me a savage ✋-_-#do not take any of this for garlean apologia i fucking hate dealing with them on an individual level as a xaela player lmfao #but yeah. if you can feel pity for livia who is a military general WHO HAS ACTIVELY KILLED YOUR FRIENDS #but not for the civilians whove never been exposed to anything other than propaganda. idk man. 30 tags. fly free my post

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