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Consider giving a pyrrhic victory to the good guys in the end as an alternative. A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defe...
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System
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2019-12-08T12:19:24Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Nikos Hidalgo
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2019-12-08T12:19:24Z (about 5 years ago)
Consider giving a pyrrhic victory to the good guys in the end as an alternative. > A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has also taken a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement. ([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory)) It still resembles a tragedy, it still makes the reader think whether having such an absolute black and white perception of the good guys vs the villains is worth it. I would happily accept a bad-guy-wins ending, if it was meant to make me think how the mistakes of the good guys led to that outcome, and see if I can try to avoid those in my daily life in a way that would prevent such outcome.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-06-27T11:53:10Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 1