[He settles down. In fact, it's almost scary how fast he does, how he can even back out again in the space of a breath and speak the wisdom he's carried all along... but doesn't often show, because of course, there were more important things to discuss.]
Human beings will never consent to elimination. They struggle and fight tooth and nail for their right to exist; they fight each other for the same reason. The world that you propose may be an ideal, but as humans, they will oppose it in order to survive.
[Gilgamesh is one of the few who can speak from experience on the matter. His tone weighs heavy. His eyes sharpen. This was a man who knew what it meant to attempt such a thing and fail—or at least he did in a doomed future where every human became an ant to be stepped on.]
You cannot wipe them out, you cannot erase them, even if it is under the auspices of good. They will raise their swords and spears in defiance and challenge you, because it from this belief—"I shall live on"—they were born. Every last one. Cycles mean nothing in the face of the human spirit.
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[He settles down. In fact, it's almost scary how fast he does, how he can even back out again in the space of a breath and speak the wisdom he's carried all along... but doesn't often show, because of course, there were more important things to discuss.]
Human beings will never consent to elimination. They struggle and fight tooth and nail for their right to exist; they fight each other for the same reason. The world that you propose may be an ideal, but as humans, they will oppose it in order to survive.
[Gilgamesh is one of the few who can speak from experience on the matter. His tone weighs heavy. His eyes sharpen. This was a man who knew what it meant to attempt such a thing and fail—or at least he did in a doomed future where every human became an ant to be stepped on.]
You cannot wipe them out, you cannot erase them, even if it is under the auspices of good. They will raise their swords and spears in defiance and challenge you, because it from this belief—"I shall live on"—they were born. Every last one. Cycles mean nothing in the face of the human spirit.