Strength is the measure by which things can be accomplished. If you say pride is stronger than hope, then you believe pride can accomplish more than hope ever could, don't you?
And you're the one who compared the two in the first place. If you weren't insisting one was more worthy than the other, why did you go out of your way to declare one as stronger? There was no reason to, unless you truly believe pride is superior.
For someone says he's done terrible things, who claims to regret them...your pride is very important to you, isn't it? And so is feeling as though you're better than other people because of that pride. All of this makes your entire confession seem rather fundamentally dishonest in its sentiments. How can someone with so much meaningless pride, still sitting on their high horse even after the terrible things they've done, be believed when they make a big public show of their belated awakening of conscience?
'Due to certain events'...you didn't make this announcement because you wanted to, or because you thought people deserved to know. Something forced your hand, didn't it? And of course, if you were going to have to admit to killing hundreds, you'd want to sound as though you were sorry, and you know better now and would never do it again...
But you don't strike me as a man who's particularly ashamed of anything. In fact, you seem to be talking down to me, only a half hour or so after expressing such supposedly heartfelt regrets...for no other reason than because I admire hope, and you scorn it.
Was this entire confession just performative? Because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but this kind of attitude is just too suggestive.
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Strength is the measure by which things can be accomplished. If you say pride is stronger than hope, then you believe pride can accomplish more than hope ever could, don't you?
And you're the one who compared the two in the first place. If you weren't insisting one was more worthy than the other, why did you go out of your way to declare one as stronger? There was no reason to, unless you truly believe pride is superior.
For someone says he's done terrible things, who claims to regret them...your pride is very important to you, isn't it? And so is feeling as though you're better than other people because of that pride. All of this makes your entire confession seem rather fundamentally dishonest in its sentiments. How can someone with so much meaningless pride, still sitting on their high horse even after the terrible things they've done, be believed when they make a big public show of their belated awakening of conscience?
'Due to certain events'...you didn't make this announcement because you wanted to, or because you thought people deserved to know. Something forced your hand, didn't it? And of course, if you were going to have to admit to killing hundreds, you'd want to sound as though you were sorry, and you know better now and would never do it again...
But you don't strike me as a man who's particularly ashamed of anything. In fact, you seem to be talking down to me, only a half hour or so after expressing such supposedly heartfelt regrets...for no other reason than because I admire hope, and you scorn it.
Was this entire confession just performative? Because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but this kind of attitude is just too suggestive.