Unless the only reason Ian couldn't bring back his sister is because she'd been dead too long.Forrest wrote:That's a good point there... Meji missed Ellis when she was alone back in Tsuirakushiti. If she had unfathomable godlike powers, the first time she got bitchy and zapped Ellis he'd cease to exist... and she would quickly learn that she can't behave like she used to anymore.runic wrote:her cat.
2008-04-11: You're getting Elf gore on my coat.
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Re: 2008-04-11: You're getting Elf gore on my coat.
CS Lewis said something similar. I believe he was talking about preferring robber baron capitalists over socialist type reformers. He figured the robber baron would occasionally have an attack of conscious about his misdeeds and work to mitigate them while the reformer would be utterly convinced of the rightness of his cause and thus be oblivious to the problems he created.BloodHenge wrote:I remember reading a quote about how evil absolute tyrants are preferable to good ones, because an evil tyrant will occasionally get bored or tired, while a good one will have every reason to work diligently and tirelessly. Wish I could remember how it went, or even where it came from...
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I think that's actually what I was thinking of.davester65 wrote:CS Lewis said something similar. I believe he was talking about prefering baron capitalists over socialist type reformers. He figured the robber baron would occasionally have an attack of concious about his misdeeds and work to mitigate them while the reformer would be utterly convinced of the rightness of his cause and thus be oblivious to the problems he created.BloodHenge wrote:I remember reading a quote about how evil absolute tyrants are preferable to good ones, because an evil tyrant will occasionally get bored or tired, while a good one will have every reason to work diligently and tirelessly. Wish I could remember how it went, or even where it came from...
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Terry Pratchett had one too, from Men at Arms. Something along the lines of "If you're ever staring down the wrong end of the sword, pray the man holding it is an evil one. Because an evil man will waste time taunting you in order to make himself feel superior, but a good man will kill you without a word."
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Especially if that man is named Carrot.
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No fucking kidding. That boy is frightning.Viking-Sensei wrote:Especially if that man is named Carrot.
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Yes, he even defeated Cohan the Barbarian.Tiamat wrote:No fucking kidding. That boy is frightning.Viking-Sensei wrote:Especially if that man is named Carrot.
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Similar idea, but not the situation I was thinking of. (And I'd actually read that one recently enough to remember it was Pratchett.)Tiamat wrote:Terry Pratchett had one too, from Men at Arms. Something along the lines of "If you're ever staring down the wrong end of the sword, pray the man holding it is an evil one. Because an evil man will waste time taunting you in order to make himself feel superior, but a good man will kill you without a word."