JustPaste.it

"However, in recent times, I've simply lost my respect for most DMs, especially Lance. After Justin's expulsion from the clan and Hack's forced resignation, most old users that I respected are now extinct. I see now why others before me have left DM. Lance, you are a huge hypocrite with an overinflated ego. You obviously have loads of skill, but you see yourself as better than everyone else."

WRONG. ZoroarkForever, I honestly do not understand why you bothered to tell me that I "obviously have loads of skill" when that is completely and utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand. It is true that I do believe myself to be the strongest trainer ever, but not once in my life have I ever used my skill at Pokémon, or any other game for that matter, as the basis or justification for why I, as a person, am superior to any other person in existence. In fact, I believe that even the Greatest Pokémon Master should not act or be treated as being superior to anyone else, no matter how bad at Pokémon any other person may be in comparison, because I do not think that a person's skill at Pokémon has anything whatsoever to do with how much a person is worth. In fact, I believe that there is only one possible way in which one person can become superior or inferior to anyone else, and that is if one person is a morally good person while the other is an evil person, with the former person being superior to the latter. In my case, it goes like this:

Once upon a time, I was at peace on Pokémon Showdown!'s Ubers channel, treating everyone around me not as inferior beings, but as my equals. Why wouldn't I do that, anyway? I am a good man who loves peace, and there is nothing I desire more than a world in which peace and Justice are present at all times. Yet in spite of that fact, some people on that channel one day suddenly flamed, muted, and ultimately, banned me for no justifiable reason (the only time I ever showed an ego in that PasteBin was after Dice had already disrespected me first). I did not disrespect anyone, ever, prior to Dice's disrespectful comments towards me. Now, tell me, what kind of beings would behave towards someone in the way Dice, Donkey, Frizy, Butt's Wife and shrang did to me in that PasteBin without having been provoked beforehand? What kind of being would randomly attack another person like that despite the fact that that person was completely at peace, when it was clearly stated by Hugendugen that there was meant to be peace between me and those people? I tell you the answer: Inferior beings. They don't deserve any respect. They don't deserve to be treated as my fellow human beings. Because actual human beings who deserve respect do not behave in the way that those insects did. So the fact that they behaved in such a way towards me proves that they are inferior to myself, which is why I am allowed to randomly insult them for fun if I wish to. THAT is the basis for my superiority over those people. Not my skill at Pokémon. It was never what I did that made me superior to anyone else. The reason why I am superior to many people was never because I ascended relative to anyone else in terms of importance and worth, but rather, because others, through their disrespectful actions towards me, have lowered themselves relative to me, and reached the level of insects. I do not have an overinflated ego, and there are no inconsistencies in my actions or principles. Rather, other people proved to me that they are inferior to me, so I had no choice but to act as such. View this diagram I drew a few months ago:

 

 

Do you understand now?

And as for those I flame who were not disrespecting me in that PasteBin I linked to, such as Sweep and Melee Mewtwo, the reason why is simple: Despite my superiority over those worthless creatures who disrespected me in that PasteBin, I am, according to some people, apparently not allowed to insult them for fun if I wish, as evident from the fact that they have banned me multiple times for such actions, despite the fact that they knew full well that those insignificant dogs got away with doing so. Why? Why am I obligated to show respect to people who have already proven to me that they are nothing more than ants that I can step on for fun if I wish? And how come those inferior beings' actions towards me can go unpunished? Through the act of punishing me for actions that I have every right to perform, people such as Sweep and Melee Mewtwo stand in complete and utter defiance of the moral order. Despite some people's disrespectful actions towards me, Sweep, Melee Mewtwo and others still show respect, and still expect me to show respect towards them, threatening me with bans if I did not comply. I mean, according to Sweep, me taking credit for Donkey's team means that I deserve to be banned? Really? Isn't that unfairly implying that a lowly insect such as Donkey has the right to not have credit for "his" team stolen (and I put those marks around the word "his" since that implies Donkey has ownership of the team, when "ownership" is a form of "right" and worthless evildoers have no rights to anything)? Really? In this way, they defend and uphold the idea that despite the fact that I was the one who was at peace and some other people were the ones who were evil by suddenly attacking me for no reason, those people were "superior" to me in the first place - that they were, by birth or other arbitrary conditions, entitled to attack me, while I am not entitled to do the same to them even after those people were clearly proven to be evil. But that idea is completely wrong and immoral, since I do not meet the one and only condition under which one person can become inferior to another, which I have already mentioned.

"You flame Smogon and PS! constantly, and while I do realize they do that as well, your actions are unjustified. Why can't you just enjoy the goddamn game like everyone else instead of bragging and flaming those who disagree with you?"

1. Enjoying the game? That is what I do. That and flaming certain users in Pokémon Showdown!'s Ubers room are not mutually exclusive.

2. Bragging? I do it for fun. It is a completely harmless act. "Arrogance" and "having an ego" are not unconditionally inappropriate - they are only wrong insofar as that they disrespect another person. Saying "I am the Greatest Pokémon Master to have ever walked under the heavens" and saying to someone "You suck, get better at the game so we're on the same level!" are both expressions of pride and constitute bragging, yet the former statement is completely harmless and acceptable, whereas the latter is not. Unless someone has already proven themselves to be an insect through their evil/disrespectful actions, I would never, in my life, say the latter statement to someone, no matter how bad at the game I believe them to be.

3. Flaming those who disagree with me? Well, listen. As a person, I am extremely tolerant of the opinions of others who disagree with me. People on Pokémon NetBattle believed that one-hit KO moves were cheap? I didn't care. People within Smogon's Übers community believe that Espeon is unviable in the Generation V Übers metagame despite my own immense success using it? I'm fine with that as well, even though I cannot understand how they developed their belief. A hypothetical person believes that Magikarp is the best Pokémon in the game competitively? I still treat them exactly the way I would like to be treated myself, as how strongly I disagree with them on that matter has nothing to do with whether they are good or evil. A person believes 1 + 1 = 3? That doesn't make them any less of a human being. There is only one type of disagreement with me that can possibly make someone inferior to myself (and by extension, justify me insulting them for fun): And that is disagreement with me on matters pertaining to moral or normative behavior. I cannot just respect someone and leave them alone when they hold beliefs about such matters that differ from mine, because that would be no different from allowing evil to perpetuate and go unresisted in this world, something which I, as a good person, am bound by duty to not do.

 

Now, if you do not understand any of the basic concepts I have explained above, and still insist that I am a villain whose actions are "unjustified", then I say good riddance to you, since with such a completely biased attitude and lack of respect for Justice and morality, you do not belong in Dragon Masters at all. Also, feel free to share this Paste with the people on the Ubers channel as well. The idealistic side of me would want that in the hope that the people there may actually open their eyes and see the truth regarding this so-called "villain" in their eyes, while the cynical side of me would want that just for the sake of experiencing the pleasure and amusement of beholding the way by which the people there react to this message.