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<blockquote data-quote="danzig138" data-source="post: 262438" data-attributes="member: 3595"><p>Because most people probably do want to be the best. Most everyone envies the abilities, skills, appearance, ownership of a cabbage patch doll, wealth, or power of someone around them. In most people, it might not be a strong envy, and they might not even realize it, but there it is. So it's not necessarily adolescent (I miss that band), and it's a perfectly acceptable goal. </p><p></p><p> <em>I'm trying to become rich so I can support my mother in comfort in her old age. I want to be rich so my children don't have to work as hard as I do.</em> Now my mother is dead, but do you see the motivation? You seem to be equating (initially) the "save the world" with become the "most powerful". There are many reasons one might want to be the big dog on the block. </p><p></p><p> Easier to save my family if I'm Billy Bad-A$$ than if I'm Willie Weenie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The desire to become powerful (and save the world) and having other character motivations are not mutually exclusive. </p><p></p><p>I have to disagree. If it's done right, saving the world is full of tension. Saving the world is ultimately about survival, and that's something the human psyche can get invested in. Like someone else said, it's all in the details. The details about why someone wants to be more powerful, why they want to save (or conquer) the world. Why do they want to go to the corner market and buy a Snickers bar? And dangit, there taint nothin wrong with cliches. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danzig138, post: 262438, member: 3595"] Because most people probably do want to be the best. Most everyone envies the abilities, skills, appearance, ownership of a cabbage patch doll, wealth, or power of someone around them. In most people, it might not be a strong envy, and they might not even realize it, but there it is. So it's not necessarily adolescent (I miss that band), and it's a perfectly acceptable goal. [I]I'm trying to become rich so I can support my mother in comfort in her old age. I want to be rich so my children don't have to work as hard as I do.[/I] Now my mother is dead, but do you see the motivation? You seem to be equating (initially) the "save the world" with become the "most powerful". There are many reasons one might want to be the big dog on the block. Easier to save my family if I'm Billy Bad-A$$ than if I'm Willie Weenie. :D The desire to become powerful (and save the world) and having other character motivations are not mutually exclusive. I have to disagree. If it's done right, saving the world is full of tension. Saving the world is ultimately about survival, and that's something the human psyche can get invested in. Like someone else said, it's all in the details. The details about why someone wants to be more powerful, why they want to save (or conquer) the world. Why do they want to go to the corner market and buy a Snickers bar? And dangit, there taint nothin wrong with cliches. :D [/QUOTE]
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