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// Wei Wuxian

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XIMILIA

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How do you mean? If you are talking about emotions, those are subjective interpretations of the same event.

That's true and fair, but where do we draw the line between emotions and perceptions of a person or an event?

To draw inspiration from recent events, is a group overthrowing a government a group of opportunistic traitors, hungry for power, or selfless revolutionaries, fighting for justice? If you read about it one hundred years after it's happened, will you accept that it was whatever the historians said it was? Who gets to decide the true narrative?

To be clear, I believe there are actions that are objectively wrong, but I don't wish to simply accept a truth put before me as truth because someone else has defined it as such.

The record should not use such charged language when discussing the truth. It is up to the individual whether a set of actions should be considered heroic. If the group opposing the government lead the country to be more peaceful and prosperous, then they were in the right. Unfortunately, all societies are doomed to self-cannibalize and ignore their original code of conduct to consolidate power. It's inevitable that they will not always be the "heroes" in the narrative.

On that we definitely agree, friend. And the record will unfortunately never be free of bias.

[A pause and then]

so what do you think, would you have kicked me out of your class if I was your student?

That depends on the class. Literature, I would warn you about interrupting other students. If it were history, I would have to balance the time spent addressing your observations with continuing on with the lesson.