User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Character Sheet: Malcolm River/@comment-4867780-20161014010956/@comment-4867780-20161015023355

I see ! So the nature/origin of abilities have no consequence on their potency or predominance ? Sounds a bit strange (cause without effect), but it's true each verse goes by its own set of rules.

So it essentially means that Malcolm doesn't stand a chance against Bradley, since the later can replicate the first abilities on top of having many abilities of its own, and the well-oiled transcendent technologies that Malcolm lacks ?

"Malcom's quantum magic also cannot be learned, it requires some quasi-mystic connection with the universe as a whole"

It cannot be learnt, but can still be replicated by Bradley's Data Warping ?

Hmm... So Quantum Magic-induced effects only keep  going within a limited radius centered on Malcolm ? Otherwise he would just have to move from one country to another and "magicize" them one by one to achieve similar results to Badley.

Haha ! That explains why Malcolm is described as "Good" and Bradley as "Evil", despite them being so very alike in the selfish pursuits of their own goals. Like all politicians in a way : some have a better public image than others, but behind the scenes they are ultimately all the same Realpolitik manipulative bastards ^ ^;

I do agree that freedom is an essential component of a happy life (that's why it is so predominant in Selforge City), just not quite as much as happiness itself. Because if you're unhappy, then isn't fredom useless in the end ? So I see freedom as a mean to the end that is happiness, rather than the end itself with happiness as a potential bonus.

Isn't Malcolm's political ideal just an alternate version of social darwinism ? Where the strong and cunning feast on the less fortunate ? Where everyone manipulates and sacrifices everyone else's interests all the time to further their own, and the world is dominated by the most calculating and ruthless minds ? Isn't that just the law of the jungle in the end ? How is it any better than what we already have in real-life, least of all "ideal" ?

"What is the point of security if at the cost of freedom" ? Get down from your piedestal Malcolm, give up all your powers and defenses and assets and insurrances and whatnot, become the weak and fragile average mortal who has to struggle day after day to preserve what little he managed to get, and may lose everything to someone stronger and smarter. Then, you will understand the "point of security at the cost of freedom" ^ ^; Demi-gods living in their ivory tower have no right to make this kind of lecture.