User blog comment:EvilMegaCookie/Maya/@comment-28898344-20150310004056/@comment-5265497-20150317045905

Discovery and growth are NOT mutually exclusive from suffering no matter how many times you pitch it especially when many people learn and discover things through it to teach future generations. It seems you're desperately trying to convince yourself otherwise, but even you should know most of the foremost scientific and historical discoveries were definitely not easy to come by. Just being an "adventurer" itself has connotations of injury and a high price of failure, but also a great return to compensate. Plus conflict is not always bittersweet and can be beneficial for both parties.

There's a lot of calculation that goes into making any civilization really, even a functional dystopia. What makes it so easy for him is his absolute abilities that ensures that his utopia is virtually automatic not requiring as much 'calculation' since everything is an inherent part of him especially given that he locks away portions of his power. It doesn't really doesn't take a genius to use an all-encompassing power to gain a utopia.

I'll admit I am idealistic, but I try my best to remain grounded in reality. And at the same time, I'm not even using it as a criticism, just an observation really.