A Squire’s Trial

get into shape. That is, until you let them off the leash once
more.
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- Because in such forced conditions, it would no longer be a
matter of their will, but rather of someone else’s will being imposed
on them, right?
- Absolutely.
- Very well, I suppose I would have to consider your argument
for inferiority.
- Then please consider the following as well: inferior people
always turn to falsehoods because they are discontent with
what their reality is, and refuse to accept it, driving them to act
out against reality by in the only way possible – delusions and
lies.
- And what of the superior people, then?
- The superior people are so by nature. All they need to do is
be themselves, and in doing so, they are standing closer to the
truth. Just how nature simply is, so they must simply be.
- I’m not sure what you mean by this. Sounds like superior
people have it easy, too.
- I suppose it may look that way to some, but in ancient
times, certain societies built themselves on a structure that reflected
the Superiority-Inferiority dichotomy. And one of their
principal rules was that everyone must be true to their nature:
so when an inferior person tried to reach beyond his station,
he was shunned – not just by the Superior, but also by his
equals and the inferior. They became pariahs. However, if a
Superior person attempted to engage in the duties or actions of
the inferior he was all the same shunned, not just by his equals