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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 17:36:18 GMT -5
She laughed and kissed him.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 17:40:41 GMT -5
"...I've found myself wishing I'd been raised there instead so often since I... found out," he added with a sigh. After a pause, he added, voice brittlely bright, "Of course, I wouldn't have known how objectionable I am, living with their sentimental outlook on Jotnar-"
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 17:53:22 GMT -5
"Stop," she said, firm but exasperated. "No race, no species, no being at all is inherently monstrous. Even a people with a history of committing atrocities is not inherently so, only made such through socialization. You are socially Asgardian and that's where you learned a whole lot of frankly revolting nonsense about jotnar being somehow objectionable. Just the fact that the Vanir don't think of jotnar the same way proves that there is nothing provably true about their being so. Why do you think the Æsir are somehow objectively right in all their thinking?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:03:41 GMT -5
"The Vanir are idle and foolish-"
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:06:01 GMT -5
"You're not even listening to me."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:07:10 GMT -5
"I am-"
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:16:38 GMT -5
"Well, what did I even say about jotnar then," she said with a pout.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:17:15 GMT -5
"You're wrong about them."
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:21:41 GMT -5
"No, I'm not. I am completely right. It is very possible for a group to have despicable morals, to be bloodthirsty, to be dangerous - but it is not possible for them to be any of those things simply because of what they are. It is not possible. Do you think, if someone took in a child, and raised that child to believe that it was a horrible beast, naturally so, that it would behave in any other way? It would believe what it was taught. If all your world treats the jotnar as horrible, and they behave as though they are, you cannot say that it proves your world correct, because those beliefs themselves might be the cause of their behavior."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:34:29 GMT -5
"...I'm... living proof of it."
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:40:11 GMT -5
"...yes," she said gently. "And I could show you many examples here in Midgard where it's been the case. It's called internalization; you take these things you're told to heart and eventually they live on in you through your actions regardless of whether or not anyone is still telling you them. But you can shape yourself into anything you want to be. You aren't what any superstition or prejudice tells you to be."
She kissed the tip of his dear nose.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:43:44 GMT -5
"I'd be the only one left if I had my way-" he snarled, almost convulsively.
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:49:02 GMT -5
Her shock was evident, if not just from her face and frozen posture but from the way she jerked back from him as thought physically repulsed. "What?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Dec 1, 2011 18:53:31 GMT -5
"Oh, don't look so sorry for them, they tried to do the same to this realm years ago," he spat, his voice somehow both higher and much more jagged-sounding than usual.
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Post by Teja on Dec 1, 2011 18:59:15 GMT -5
Actually beginning to shake she stood very quickly from the couch. "And you think that makes it all right? You recognize in one sentence that them doing it here is terrible - and you probably consider it as evidence of their monstrosity - but do it to them and it's justified?"
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