As I have nothing to hide, my name is Eric. All you needed to do was ask.
Total change? My friend, you misinterpret my meaning. Change for change's sake is just as irresponsible as a permanent stagnation. Now, I had thought I made it clear that I do not support change for destruction, as Ruin advocates, and I definitely do not approve of a Preservation-brought stagnation. Therefore, I am not attached to either force, unlike what you want the citizens to believe.
I had believed that the alternative was insinuated. If not Ruin nor Preservation, but still change, then that change would need to be a positive, responsible one. Since I oppose both of those extremes, then I
thought that I clearly support a middle ground, and a balance between the two.
I, if given the honor of this office, would use the power bestowed upon me not to advocate total change as my opponent seems to, but to carefully balance the forces of change and preservation, preserving our culture and those parts of our society which will help us as a people to function more effectively, while simultaneously changing those parts that stagnate us, that hold us down.
Isn't that exactly what a dynamic system is supposed to act like? If so, then any man can plainly see that is what I advocate.
For future reference, I won't dare leave something like that up to interpretation. I thought you and I could have an intelligent, meaningful debate, but clearly I was mistaken.
I did not syle myself "the Great" out of arrogance, but out of the hope that I could one day rise to fill the shoes I had taken upon myself.
I believe the axiom was "Great men do not seek power; they have power thrust upon them," not, "Great men give themselves titles in a hope to actually be great."
Never mind that in the first post following my rather more extensive theory on Hemalurgy, My Opponent expressed his opinion that it was the best hemalurgy theory on the boards. I never claimed to be the origin of all these many ideas, I simply wanted to point out that at about the time I showed up on the boards, many of these seperate, smaller ideas started to fit together in ways that you had not yet imagined. I have proved time and time again my competency. In fact, my ability to take others ideas and improve them far beyond what they had initially imagined is one of my greatest traits. But does this mean that I cannot come up with my own ideas? Of course not. There are a multitude of examples all around you of the brilliance I have brought. Do not be deceived by my opponents trickery.
Competency, my friend, is something we are both well-versed in. We both are competent men, yes? Like you, I often take a small idea and cultivate it into a grand one. It's a moot point. What is more important is that you claim omniscience in your speech, when such a thing is not possible without holding the power at the Well of Ascension.
I cannot help but notice that you mentioned nothing of your contract in your retort, when that is the true issue. You make up things as you go along, hoping to slip fear into the citizens, and then praying that it will make you win on election day.
You don't have the judgment to hold the power properly. I, on the other hand, have been nothing but straightforward. I am the Hero of Ages.
This message approved by The Chaos2651 Campaign, because we cannot afford another Lord Ruler.P.S. How dare you vilify me for bowing down to the authority of Brenna or not being available during my move to college? If you want to start an argument over "who has the commitment necessary to be the Hero of Ages", fine, but you are restricted by your mother, while I have no such inhibiting force. I will win such an argument.
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