I ought to say - because it ought to be said - that I am not in fact fighting for survival. I am a Rifter; my lifespan, if what others have told me is true, is likely to be no more than a few years. At any point I could fade into nothing after losing my mind and personality. For someone like me to fight for survival,is completely ludicrous. Of course - I am sure that, upon reading this, you are mentally preparing a very profane reminder that I am no one special, that anyone can die at any time; but that is precisely the point, is it not? There is no point fighting for survival when, at the end of the day, no one survives into the long term.
So: a bit of thought, then. A few questions. I think it is worth asking ourselves: should our primary task truly be to stabilize Thedas? Obviously, Corypheus is dreadful; he is cruel, and terrible, and uses people awfully and abominably. But so, too, does the Empress of Orlais. So, too, does the Queen of Ferelden, and the Divine, and the Black Divine, and the Archon, and every person who holds power. We fight to stabilize Thedas - and then what? It goes back to how it was before? With all the diseases it had before, all the nasty creeping illnesses that gave rise to the likes of Corypheus? With elves crushed under the boots of their masters, with the poor beaten and killed for being poor, with nobles told 'you're grand because of your father' and peasants told 'you're nothing because of your father'? Is that worth spending our few years of life on?
These are real questions. I am not asking them because I believe the answer is 'no'. But you say we are here to stabilize instead of revolutionize. Why? Whom, truly, does that benefit? It certainly does not benefit the slaves up in Tevinter, nor the elves of the Alienage, nor the soldier in the field who gives up his/her life for this fight and will never see tomorrow, who was born in filth and is forced to die in filth because this world permits nothing else.
Sincerely, Kathleen Jones
P.S.-- Please don't send back a great lot of 'you're a Rifter & barely even know this world & how dare you criticize us' because if you do I will SCREAM and not only will I scream I will do so directly into your ear and it will be very painful.
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Date: 2018-11-16 01:40 pm (UTC)I ought to say - because it ought to be said - that I am not in fact fighting for survival. I am a Rifter; my lifespan, if what others have told me is true, is likely to be no more than a few years. At any point I could fade into nothing after losing my mind and personality. For someone like me to fight for survival,is completely ludicrous. Of course - I am sure that, upon reading this, you are mentally preparing a very profane reminder that I am no one special, that anyone can die at any time; but that is precisely the point, is it not? There is no point fighting for survival when, at the end of the day, no one survives into the long term.
So: a bit of thought, then. A few questions. I think it is worth asking ourselves: should our primary task truly be to stabilize Thedas? Obviously, Corypheus is dreadful; he is cruel, and terrible, and uses people awfully and abominably. But so, too, does the Empress of Orlais. So, too, does the Queen of Ferelden, and the Divine, and the Black Divine, and the Archon, and every person who holds power. We fight to stabilize Thedas - and then what? It goes back to how it was before? With all the diseases it had before, all the nasty creeping illnesses that gave rise to the likes of Corypheus? With elves crushed under the boots of their masters, with the poor beaten and killed for being poor, with nobles told 'you're grand because of your father' and peasants told 'you're nothing because of your father'? Is that worth spending our few years of life on?
These are real questions. I am not asking them because I believe the answer is 'no'. But you say we are here to stabilize instead of revolutionize. Why? Whom, truly, does that benefit? It certainly does not benefit the slaves up in Tevinter, nor the elves of the Alienage, nor the soldier in the field who gives up his/her life for this fight and will never see tomorrow, who was born in filth and is forced to die in filth because this world permits nothing else.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Jones
P.S.-- Please don't send back a great lot of 'you're a Rifter & barely even know this world & how dare you criticize us' because if you do I will SCREAM and not only will I scream I will do so directly into your ear and it will be very painful.