[ Alright, he doesn't like the sound of a little kid calling anyone his "master" but we'll get back to that later. ]
I don't think it's a skill.
Understanding people...is different. People all have reasons and feelings that determine what they do. We can figure those out--human to human, on the same baseline. But the world at large? Who knows. If there's a reason behind what happens in the world, then it's so alien that we can't figure it out. Like a foreign language.
Some people like to make them up, to help them make sense of the world. The "God has a plan" type.
Me? I figure it's all random. Good things, cruel things, they all happen at random, at random times, to random people. And we just have to make the best of it. Whatever 'reasoning' we find in that is just our own invention.
[ i can't believe you're making me write entire philosophical discussions with bucky fuckin' barnes ]
Spirits, huh. Well, I can't say I know much about them. But as long as they have thoughts and feelings, as long as you can interact with 'em and understand 'em, they count as people.
Otherwise, they're no different from looking for any way you can to make sense out of nothing. Just a different take on "God has a plan."
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I don't think it's a skill.
Understanding people...is different. People all have reasons and feelings that determine what they do. We can figure those out--human to human, on the same baseline. But the world at large? Who knows. If there's a reason behind what happens in the world, then it's so alien that we can't figure it out. Like a foreign language.
Some people like to make them up, to help them make sense of the world. The "God has a plan" type.
Me? I figure it's all random. Good things, cruel things, they all happen at random, at random times, to random people. And we just have to make the best of it. Whatever 'reasoning' we find in that is just our own invention.
[ i can't believe you're making me write entire philosophical discussions with bucky fuckin' barnes ]
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That might be true - there might be no reason for things like that.
But I mean. . . there are things that exist, but aren't people. Things like spirits.
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Spirits, huh. Well, I can't say I know much about them. But as long as they have thoughts and feelings, as long as you can interact with 'em and understand 'em, they count as people.
Otherwise, they're no different from looking for any way you can to make sense out of nothing. Just a different take on "God has a plan."
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You need to have thoughts and feelings to be a person?
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...Yeah? It's kind of part of the basic description. If you have thoughts and feelings, you're a person.