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[metalica]

[ The post comes across with a name that, really, no one will recognise. It's one word, simple: ＡＤＬＥＲ. Thank goodness for the text option so he has no need to attempt to hide his voice or face; for now his name is enough. ]

Tell me about your world. Your wars. Your powers. Tell me about the things that you fight for, what you continue to cherish even here.

Educate me.

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[thebreakingwave]

My name is Harry Potter. In my world, there are two sorts of people: those who can't do magic (all human) and those who can (wizards, witches, magical non-humans, etc.). Magic-users live separately and in secret.

We've just come out from a very long war, or a long series of wars, depending on your view. On paper, it was about 'blood purity' and the right to determine who's allowed into our society and their worth. In fact, it was just about power. For some time, I fought just to stay alive, to prevent my friends from being harmed, but in the end, I fought because did and still do, believe that a person's value has nothing to do with their blood or parentage, but everything to do with the choices they've made and the people they love.

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[metalica]

In secret. Why? You are the better kind, surely. The stronger. Let me guess, if you allow me a moment; do the humans persecute, fear you? Do they fear magical kind they way they would those with any other forms of power?

Tell me; do you think love makes you stronger?

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[thebreakingwave]

Physical strength and capability does not make a person inherently better. You can't just cull out a whole group of people based on what you think are undesirable characteristics. That's monstrous and evil. Fullstop.

I know it makes us better people and better at what we do.

I don't just mean that as gladhand, happy-clappy nonsense. I have actual, physical proof that love is a force that is universal and more powerful than hate, fear, and cruelty.

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[metalica]

And what if the people you wish to cut out hunted you down, captured you, experimented upon you? What would you do then? Would you continue to allow them to harm your friends, loved ones, or would you fight back? Would you sit and cry peace when blood was being spilt around you?

Strength makes you stronger. Emotion fuels the flame but it is what you are inside that gives you true power. Hate, fear and anger can be the fuel that keeps you alive. I know.

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[thebreakingwave]

They didn't cut us out. We left, long ago, and I don't know if it was the right choice. If they, or people within my own society harmed my friends, I would fight back. I don't know if I'm built for peace or have that capability.

It can keep you in existence, but that's not really alive. For whatever happened on your world, I'm sorry. I don't think my words mean much here, but they're still true.

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[metalica]

So you would fight, then, for your kind, if they were threatened. Your strength would overcome them because you are better and stronger than they could ever hope to be. It is simply the laws of evolution.

I don't need your apologies.

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[thebreakingwave]

Might does not make right. A man with a gun is not morally superior or a better person than a man without one. He has an advantage, but he is neither better nor more just.

I don't know if I'm making my argument well. I've thought a bit about some of this, but I'll be honest, I have more gut feeling than reasoned logic. I just think that if you take your society, cut it in two and decide that these people are better because of bloodlines, or hair colour, or some other random thing, and then rule or ruin the half that doesn't meet up, well, where do you draw the line?

In my world, we were split into magical and non-magical. Fine.

Some of the magical people decided that wasn't good enough. Wasn't pure enough, and they wanted to burn out the parts that weren't up to their arbitrary standard. These people were stronger than us, adults with training, that had fought wars before. They were cruel and powerful. They were unjust. They lost.

I hope you'll pardon that I've now unlocked this thread, but I have no shame about what I'm saying here and have said.

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[metalica]

You put it into far too complex terms. A and B. It is not so simple -- our kind, my kind, fight for their rights, fight for their lives, or die. Die on lab tables, in wars, at the hands of humans and worse. If we do not rise up, prove our worth, our strength, fight for our existence, we will be wiped out. I will not have my brothers and sisters die because people refuse to accept us for who and what we are.

It isn't about simply superiority. We are the stronger, superior kind, true, but we are fighting for our lives. We are fighting to simply continue to live. I will not feel ashamed of that. I will not be told that my actions lack justice when peace is no longer an option for our survival.

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[thebreakingwave]

I think, and I am willing to admit that I am wrong, that I am from a kinder time and world where peace is possible. If that wasn't an option for me, I don't know what I'd do, say, or feel.

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[metalica]

Peace was never an option.