![]() But if those convictions waver? If your beliefs are beset with doubt? Then Walhart will again rise up and demand his voice be heard! As long as your belief is firm, I will follow the path you set. Walhart: Because I wanted to test the strength of your convictions.You have proven yourself the mightier, and therefore I must bend to your will. Walhart: YOU defeated ME, tactician! Remember? Clearly, yours is the truer path.But on this matter, I will not change my mind. ![]() A world without such friendship is no world I want, no matter how safe it may be.I am sorry. We are meant to save people, and that is what we must do. But the loss of even one life is a terrible tragedy-an enormity beyond reckoning. Robin: We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of denying our own humanity! Yes, it would be easy to treat deaths like so many numbers on a balance.I concede my approach is ruthless and calculating. Walhart: You speak of my willingness to sacrifice the few for the greater good.People are merely values arrayed on a playing field. The world you paint leaves no room for human compassion or feeling. Robin: I have considered your arguments carefully, and they have a compelling logic.Walhart: You hem and haw like an old maid.If that is hand-wringing in your eyes, then so be it. Robin: I am trying to determine what is the right thing to do, and what I should believe in.Someday, you will learn this truth: might rules, or nothing does.We shall talk of this again. "This man here shall live." "This man here shall die.". No man can! So you place every life on the balance, and like a god, you decide. Walhart: Think, tactician! Look at what you do.THAT is the matter of numbers and balances, tactician! THAT is war! We are the same, you and I, even if you would pretend otherwise. You had no qualms, for you valued those lives less than others. Walhart: And I say it is! You do not display the same distaste for war when it comes to slaying your enemies.Robin: But war is not a matter of numbers and balances!.Walhart: Think bigger! If we were to succeed, we would eliminate all future wars! What is the sacrifice of even a million people if it builds a golden eternal future? What are they when weighed against peace and safety for generations to come?.I could not be party to such horror, no matter how noble the goal. Robin: War on that scale would inflict death and suffering on uncountable innocents.Through sheer strength of mind, steel, and will, we would make it whole. Think of the possibilities! With my might and your tactical mind, we could conquer this world. Bring everything under one rule, and we can stamp out the strife that fuels war. If we are to eradicate war, we must destroy all borders. Walhart: One that is unshakable and invulnerable.Overwhelming power is the only thing that will enable men to build true peace! Walhart: Have you thought about our discussion? Do you see now the error in your thinking? Surely you know now that bonds of friendship are irrelevant to victory.Robin: That didn't sound like a question, but sure.I am a wraith set loose to destroy all who block the path.But I admit, your thinking intrigues me. You are one of us now-a member of the Shepherds and a comrade-in-arms. But you will soon see for yourself the importance of unit cohesion, of bonds. Robin: To a man such as yourself, my method seems ludicrous.I do not expect you to understand such things. With truly overwhelming might, such trivial obstacles can be brushed aside. ![]() Walhart: If discord arises, it only means you had insufficient power in the first place.It sows discontent and discord, which become the seeds of a new war. Robin: But victory gained through might alone often brings insurrection in its wake.Or, if necessary, the power to wipe them both out entirely. Walhart: A tepid answer more suited to mewling babes than men of combat! The key to victory is power, tactician.Well, I'd say fostering the bonds between soldiers is most important. A strategist should already have an opinion on such a fundamental question. ![]()
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