[Damn. But this is the problem with revolutions, isn't it? Or one of them, anyway. There are ways to fix governments without violence. Peaceful opposition might mean slower change, and he's sympathetic to those who are left in a bad situation in the meantime when the change doesn't happen quickly enough to help them. But the chaos and violence when things spiral out of control never help anyone - and four million years of that is an extreme example. How many lives lost, cities destroyed, civilizations set back and opportunities wasted because of an unending war? It hardly matters who started off right or wrong; by the end of it, both were plenty guilty of moral crimes against their people whether they realized it or not.
He contemplates this quietly for a moment. It's hard to know what to say.]
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He contemplates this quietly for a moment. It's hard to know what to say.]
And the end result? How do things stand now?