The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth

[NotaNuffian]

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

"Sacrificing is fine as long it isn't me."

Etc etc.

Posting this thread for some reason because I read a funny scene where an antag just wants to kill the old human guardian who fucked him up previously (because in martial world, only one shall reign supreme) and every martial artist human audience is telling the antag to stop being selfish and KYS.

Yeah, I think the scene is funny in the Hero who Returned style. Everyone just conveniently forgets how they killed the antag's entire family after he had lost to the guardian, forcing him to become a beggar and never to return home.

L. O. L.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Those villagers knew, but they conveniently "forget" they've done shit because they knew they fucked up. Tis a desperate and last resort response to save their asses from their upcoming doom.

Pretty much realistic, if you ask me. I've seen such reaction many times, though yeah, tis funny and pathetic.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Those villagers knew, but they conveniently "forget" they've done shit because they knew they fucked up.

Pretty much realistic, if you ask me. I've seen such reaction many times, though yeah, tis funny and pathetic.

Yeah. Seen that shit myself a lot of times IRL too.

Heads up for anyone still going on with the topic. RL is a bitch, but I am mostly looking for fictions.

Adds a tiny filter on the godforsaken reality.

 

[MasterY001]

There's an old saying, "Play the cards you're dealt."

Even ancient civilizations were aware that life isn't designed to be fair, just ask the Greeks. They wrote sagas where the Fates intentionally weave equivocal rules, bigoted circumstances, and endings that are often unsatisfactory (and tragic). To me and to them, fiction exists to process reality, not deny it.

That antagonist didn't realize that "justice" does not guarantee satisfaction. Revenge of any kind is inherently self-defeating, no matter how justified. Still, it would make for a good read if I was xianxia intolerant.

(Pardon the rant, I had a bad day)

 

[AnonUnlimited]

I would not feel bad about burning down a village that shunned me. That is if that was all that I knew.

 

[NotaNuffian]

There's an old saying, "Play the cards you're dealt."

Even ancient civilizations were aware that life isn't designed to be fair, just ask the Greeks. They wrote sagas where the Fates intentionally weave equivocal rules, bigoted circumstances, and endings that are often unsatisfactory (and tragic). To me and to them, fiction exists to process reality, not deny it.

That antagonist didn't realize that "justice" does not guarantee satisfaction. Revenge of any kind is inherently self-defeating, no matter how justified. Still, it would make for a good read if I was xianxia intolerant.

(Pardon the rant, I had a bad day)

Nah, rant away.

Life sucks.

I would not feel bad about burning down a village that shunned me. That is if that was all that I knew.

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