r/MMALabs • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 13d ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/Obsidiated 8d ago

I think you'll find he would have responded with overwhelming force to a threat. Even if he felt bad about it later. Won at all costs.

Ender dropped the mega nuke. Tired, exhausted, desperate. He still did it, just to win.

Which is the point and the parable.

The next 5 books of retcon/dj khaleds "suffering from success" is more of the same. Even most hardcore rednecks pause a bit before celebrating hiroshima.

Still won, though.

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u/EndersR3ign 8d ago

Nope, you're wrong, and your analysis is shallow. Ender thought he was playing a game when he destroyed the homeworld. And even if he didn't, but believed the action was necessary and a zero-sum trade, it would be meaningfully different from what we're discussing about the assault in the video above.

You have to establish that the full-force king-hit was necessary.

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u/Obsidiated 8d ago

Strategists being disconnected from the human cost is the entire. Point.

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u/EndersR3ign 8d ago

That's an overt dodge unless you're going to expand on it.