Sirrocco
Tiny but ambitious squid
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I'm not saying "it's better". I'm saying "There are some advantages here, even tactically." The advantages of the path of quick power are obvious - you get power, quickly. The disadvantages of the path of slow and painful recovery are *equally* obvious - it's slow and painful. The costs of the path of quick power would have been a bit more hidden, except Mu was kind enough to lay at least some of them out for us explicitly. The benefits of slow and painful recovery are likewise somewhat less obvious - but they're there.I'm just going to say I disagree with 'inherent virtue' of the long path. It's just a different path, not a 'better' one. I voted for weakness because I want Little Bee to have a few years to herself, not because I think that there is an inherent advantage to doing things the slow way.