[Thanks to the enhanced beauty of his voice and the potency of the emotion behind that shout, one could almost swear Edgeworth sang "objection" instead of shouting it as he points straight at Kay.]
To begin with, I've put a great deal of effort into learning emotional control in a general sense! After all, sentiment can easily get in the way of logic if one isn't careful. Indeed, if I lacked such skill I would have started singing again by now! Second, while I've long felt comfortable wielding authority, I've never lusted for more of it than I possess! Furthermore, the compulsion to use my song to rule others doesn't come paired with any compulsion to apply any specific values in doing so, when potentially applicable values are what I remember having felt strongly about and no drive to conquer others existed within me!
In addition, your own earlier testimony suggests that a change of species from human to merman should not have twisted my existing emotions into such an impulse to rule others! Specifically, you've stated that the various clans of merpeople have attitudes about humans which range from disdainful to neutral to friendly. If an impulse to rule others through song were normal among passionate merpeople, then why would those clans that think less of humans not simply enslave coastal populations?! After all, they would lack the respect for humans necessary to see any need to control such an impulse! For that matter, despite your later claims that it's normal for simple spikes in emotion to drive one to sing and that undersea society trains its youth to control such impulses, your own initial advice that I try singing simply because I felt like it suggests that at the absolute least, the degree to which my song gripped me took you by surprise!
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[Thanks to the enhanced beauty of his voice and the potency of the emotion behind that shout, one could almost swear Edgeworth sang "objection" instead of shouting it as he points straight at Kay.]
To begin with, I've put a great deal of effort into learning emotional control in a general sense! After all, sentiment can easily get in the way of logic if one isn't careful. Indeed, if I lacked such skill I would have started singing again by now! Second, while I've long felt comfortable wielding authority, I've never lusted for more of it than I possess! Furthermore, the compulsion to use my song to rule others doesn't come paired with any compulsion to apply any specific values in doing so, when potentially applicable values are what I remember having felt strongly about and no drive to conquer others existed within me!
In addition, your own earlier testimony suggests that a change of species from human to merman should not have twisted my existing emotions into such an impulse to rule others! Specifically, you've stated that the various clans of merpeople have attitudes about humans which range from disdainful to neutral to friendly. If an impulse to rule others through song were normal among passionate merpeople, then why would those clans that think less of humans not simply enslave coastal populations?! After all, they would lack the respect for humans necessary to see any need to control such an impulse! For that matter, despite your later claims that it's normal for simple spikes in emotion to drive one to sing and that undersea society trains its youth to control such impulses, your own initial advice that I try singing simply because I felt like it suggests that at the absolute least, the degree to which my song gripped me took you by surprise!