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The Price of Friendship
Written by: Dream Shadow, the Eternal Nightmare
Date: Friday, April 7th, 2000
Addressed to: Squire Zero Knight Probate
I'm switching my arguement to you now because you said some things
that upset me.
1. "The honourable function of friendship is mutual benefaction
and gain"
What the HELL does honour have to do with friendship? Friendship
isn't something with a function or purpose, it's a relationship
based on a mutual enjoyment of eachothers company. Maybe you
enter a friendship looking for something to gain, but then it
really isn't a friendship. What you're describing is symbiosis
like a the two fungi in a lichen.
2. "People like that (thieves) are never your friends, right from
the start...and if you stay friends with them...they will just hurt
you again when they can."
You misinterpret reality Zero. Allow me to explain. If one of my
friends needed THAT much money THAT quickly that he needed to steal
it from me, I would just give it to him. Or if he already stole it
I would tell him to keep it as a gift.
I ask you Zero. Would you give up your life for a friend? It seems
you wouldn't give your life up for a friend if you won't even give
your gold up to a friend. If someone I considered a friend needed
me dead, I would indeed lie down and die for them, just as I would
die protecting them. But you don't need to hear about this Zero,
you think dying for someone would just be dumb.
3. "So that he could get close to that other man's wife...because
he was sick and evil."
I think sleeping with another man's wife is sick and evil. But I
guess you don't because you portray it as being good. And yes
there was a logical reason for the man in my story to do that sort
of thing, he enjoyed it. Which is the same reason that one man was
sleeping with the other man's wife.
4."Now, I don't think anyone of intellingence can reasonably
insist that the wounded man and the doctor weren't friends."
I think I have some modicum of intelligence, and I insist that
they weren't friends. Or are you usually friends with people you
have known for about thirty seconds to a minute? If you are then
I pity you.
Zero you made some very strong statements in your post. Are you
ready to defend them point for point?
-Dream supporter of the eternal arguement.
(if you support the eternal arguement wear a red ribbon)
Penned by my hand on the 18th of Aeguary, in the year 245 AF.
The Price of Friendship
Written by: Dream Shadow, the Eternal Nightmare
Date: Friday, April 7th, 2000
Addressed to: Squire Zero Knight Probate
I'm switching my arguement to you now because you said some things
that upset me.
1. "The honourable function of friendship is mutual benefaction
and gain"
What the HELL does honour have to do with friendship? Friendship
isn't something with a function or purpose, it's a relationship
based on a mutual enjoyment of eachothers company. Maybe you
enter a friendship looking for something to gain, but then it
really isn't a friendship. What you're describing is symbiosis
like a the two fungi in a lichen.
2. "People like that (thieves) are never your friends, right from
the start...and if you stay friends with them...they will just hurt
you again when they can."
You misinterpret reality Zero. Allow me to explain. If one of my
friends needed THAT much money THAT quickly that he needed to steal
it from me, I would just give it to him. Or if he already stole it
I would tell him to keep it as a gift.
I ask you Zero. Would you give up your life for a friend? It seems
you wouldn't give your life up for a friend if you won't even give
your gold up to a friend. If someone I considered a friend needed
me dead, I would indeed lie down and die for them, just as I would
die protecting them. But you don't need to hear about this Zero,
you think dying for someone would just be dumb.
3. "So that he could get close to that other man's wife...because
he was sick and evil."
I think sleeping with another man's wife is sick and evil. But I
guess you don't because you portray it as being good. And yes
there was a logical reason for the man in my story to do that sort
of thing, he enjoyed it. Which is the same reason that one man was
sleeping with the other man's wife.
4."Now, I don't think anyone of intellingence can reasonably
insist that the wounded man and the doctor weren't friends."
I think I have some modicum of intelligence, and I insist that
they weren't friends. Or are you usually friends with people you
have known for about thirty seconds to a minute? If you are then
I pity you.
Zero you made some very strong statements in your post. Are you
ready to defend them point for point?
-Dream supporter of the eternal arguement.
(if you support the eternal arguement wear a red ribbon)
Penned by my hand on the 18th of Aeguary, in the year 245 AF.