Indeed. You claim that ego is a lie, yet what lie would you have us fight for? Honor? Glory? Or some other term that is synonymous with "go die in a hole for the man who owns you."

Clarity, Ms. Darasuum. Insight.-á

In this particular case, several of your remarks might be taken as philosophical, if not religious. I am curious whether we are dealing with a seeker of insight, a would-be visionary who believes she has found a shard of insight and wishes to share it, or a marketer.

As you might guess, as someone who seeks clarity, I'm not all that interested in marketers.

Fight for the Gallente and you shall die like the rest. There is no mercy for the heathens, and the corrupt.

Then what do you stand for? I find it hard to believe a man who stands for nothing, and yet spouts idiocracies about being a factor. A factor? A man who does not stand for even his own race is a man who has not proven himself to be a factor. He only proves himself to be a double-edged knife that cuts both his allies and enemies.

Stand for your race, soldier. Or dont stand at all.

-á... I see. Your philosophical bent has been unwelcome in places?

-áThat was never really the suspicion, Mr. Darasuum. The suspicion was more that you are employing philosophy as a gimmick, rather than a genuine focus.

-áFor that matter, the Blood Raiders as a society cling tight to one very specific insight that they insist encompasses all of reality: the value of power. Miserably, they're close enough to right for their outlook to be a functional one.

Come to think of it, they decorate their views with language similar to yours: the language of survival, advantage, and weakness.

It's perhaps difficult to describe seeing all the glories of the universe in terms of power as a weakness, but it seems an unnecessarily harsh way to weigh the value of, for example, a friendship. Then again, they also focus on ego, where you seem to discard it.

What purpose do you see yourself as serving, if it is not ego?

-áYou mistake ego with pride. Pride is the toxin that invades a mind and drives it to believing it can not possibly fail. Those who survive on the battlefield long enough begin to believe they are invincible. When that happens, you either become a slave to your pride until the day you are met with crushing failure or you abandon that pride and learn to survive without it.-á

Pride, honor, and chivalry is what sets us up for failure.-á

Ego on the other hand is one's sense of self. It is what separates you from the rest of creation. It liberates you, gives you a chance to become something more than you could ever have imagined. It is ego that both sparks wars and makes peace. Ego can let a man soar of send him into the ground based on what he does with his gift of life.

Pride, honor, and chivalry is what sets us up for failure. ... Someone once told me there are three kinds of soldiers. Those who seek strength, those who live for pride, and those who can read the tide of battle. So tell me, which are you?

-áRace is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, or social affiliation.

Once born to a bloodline in the Gallente faction, you are already integrated to its race in terms of all the bolded items in the italicized definition of the word Race. Anatomical being the odd one out since all factions have the same anatomical features. On the contrary, you used Race on your fourth paragraph to describe the Gallente, which solidifies my resolution that the Gallente, as a whole, are a Race.

On the subject of Race and Supremacy, it is vital that you consider where you are from and from whose bossom you have fed when you were but a tiny specimen of a Gallente. Your ancestors are Gallente. You are Gallente. You will be Gallente. You cannot escape your own blood. -á

-áSo, what is Pride? Pride is what you make it to be. Selfish Pride? Yes. Selfless Pride? Yes. To be selfless and prideful is to stand up to what is right and true and believe it without a doubt. You race, which has reared you into your existence to this very moment is the most deserving of this. Turning your back on our Nation? That is unacceptable.

A Proud Gallente serving his motherland with his all? Or a coward in search of glory undivine? You choose.

-áDeath and pain might be irrelevant for you, but believe me, they are not. I have witnessed the effects of constant pain and death in myself, it is not pleasant.

-áWherever you go, it seems such people and their arguments are always the same. That said, I wasn't really expecting this tone from a Gallentean. It's usually seemed that Gallentean reactionaries have tended to make their arguments in terms of portraying the Caldari as barbarians who threaten Gallentean freedoms and such, rather than a naked appeal to blood and group identity.

Xanthos-haan, I advocate liberty, not dominance. Personally, I would rather take my own liberty over a secure hivemind of the masses anyway. If you disagree with that than you can by all means blast yourself off to null-sec and see how much you enjoy a world without ego as a part of Sansha's Nation.

I also find it interesting how so many people these days conclude that any man who is capable of holding an aggressive debate must be seeking an emotional responce. Granted, we are immortals. Something could in fact come of this. I could just as easily call you out and command you to suit up and fight if that was what I was seeking, but where would that get both of us? Just slightly more angry with slightly less ISK. I'm not looking to cause a fight, but I figure in our profession hazing is an occupational hazard, so get used to it.