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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DerHauptman" data-source="post: 3071780" data-attributes="member: 39988">Dazed at Kol's intellectually unencumbered thought process Zurd shakes his head....He thinks to himself a bit...[sblock]Well, never a dull moment with this group at least.  I wonder if they are all that short sighted and intellectually challenged to not see that a truce made even in guise of a ruse is honorable until such time as the other person breaks it...[/sblock]Still thinking...Waxing philosophic for a moment....[sblock]Who has achieved the greater victory the single man who may fell a nation with a thousand words and a single dagger thrust at the right time or the man who, with his mighty army on the field of battle swings a thousand sword strokes that ends with the final blow much like unto the first?  The first one risks none but himself in his endeavor, should he fail none may even know it.  The other may kill a thousand of his kinsmen and still fail, he and his line suffer humiliation, a thousand mothers weep and for what, the story of another battle that will be forgotten in time.   If either were to succeed, however the results would be vastly different.  The first will like the second man still be king but he will have risked none but his own life and fortune.   The second will also be a king but at the risk of the lives and fortunes of his fellows.  One earns his end alone the other on the backs of others....Who is the greater man?  Would this group even know it.....?[/sblock]He responds to the group...I make no pretense at morality for that is the sole jurisdiction of men and their kind - I make only one claim - that of survival and that one's right action extends only so far as his sword arm or spell can enforce it.  As for your claim of duplicity, I never claimed to be some form or moralist with you or anyone else in the group...I am many things but I am not a hypocrite.  Yea, I would have enslaved a town of humans, or killed them all just the same to achieve some desired end.  Likewise, I would have killed a thousand orcs in their sleep to see our group's reward increase.  I would also lay down my life for the fleeting touch of a woman's caress, the dignity of a dying man or the justice of some noble cause.  I'd die for you Kol, I almost did - remember.  That was the last time you "had your untamed...rage" and almost got us all killed.  You cost me one of my best friends....I guess the difference to me is that while you will risk all our lives because you have some warped sense of morality...it's fine to kill as long as they know they are your enemy...I will risk my own to ensure that we don't have to face them and risk all our collective lives.   To claim that standing toe to toe with some enemy is honorable in any way is comeplete and utter nonsense, it's how people rationalize killing as some glorious and noble pursuit.   Death is the end, its messy and cruel and in the end regardless of which side one is on its painful.   I do it to succeed and survive...nothing more nothing less!I wonder why each of us is willing to kill for money but only if we can rationalize the process.  I think its just the means to an end, neither noble nor savage, neither good nor evil -just a fact of life.  At that he goes over to one of the orc bodies nearest the pool where the battle took place. He grabs it by the arm and with a single sword stroke he removes the limb from the carcass with the same emotion a butcher does a leg of lamb.  He holds it over his head and tosses it into the pool....He watches the pool intently to see what happens...</blockquote>

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