Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
Its in the face of adversity that we can have greatest growth. Also as I said before it shows that our fight has a cost. Its not going to just be alright. We will lose things and have tough choices. Its what makes the hero.
Platitudes. I'm not convinced.

There are ways to handle it that I would be okay with, conditionally, but the price tags thus far have been fairly arbitrary, and the people paying them either die smiling utterly assured of the merits of their sacrifice, or suffer in silence knowing their pain is meaningless before the suffering of the masses. It would be one thing if they had the character foundation to support that, but most characters seem to go from 0 to Jesus in 60 seconds, and with appallingly few exceptions, the people around them accept and laud their suffering without much of a second thought.

I don't like being the hero who serves an abstract, faceless good at the expense of the people around me (and not myself). It's not what I signed up for. Not in Final Fantasy.