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Extra: The Philosophy of Sin

-Pride: Isn't simply arrogance, or false platitudes, but the ignoring consequences and the pushing of boundaries, the rejection of a natural order, an embracement of the idea that you know what's best for the world. Those on top here are not on top because of inheritance, they're on top because they refused to be anywhere else. Demanding that the best and settling for nothing less, forming an influence that is a mix of meritocracy, technocracy, and nobility all rolled together for those believing they can thrive in it's cutthroat domain that advances the limits of society regardless of the fallout.

-Greed: Is all about wanting more and making sure no one dares to take what is yours. Empty greed is the desire to simply horde everything you can to the point that your treasure becomes worthless fool's gold, but true greed is to know that treasure is in the eye of the beholder, and that true treasure is something only you can define. Those who thrive in this society are either the thieves willing to risk anything to possess what they covet, or the business men who have learned the key to maximizing profits is to invest and claim the diamonds as they emerge from the mud and blood.

-Lust: Isn't simply the desire for sex, in olden times it was a desire for anything that brought you further from god and in modern times it is often simply loving someone others think you shouldn't. While those within the domain of lust often are more open about things, they're also the ones most willing to accept outsiders and outcasts so long as they're accepted in turn. This has created a society that revolves around love, sex, and the furthering of both without care for what others may think of them a place where love and sex are both freedom and power and the world is a cult of personality.

-Envy: Often defined as sadness at another person's joy, is also to see someone else and aspire for more than what you have now. It is to see someone doing well and cripple them for it, or to surpass them and become more. To commit this sin is to motivate yourself not for yourself, but those around you as you're unable to see yourself. Vengeance, punishment, inspiration, and spite are what thrive in this society where Social Media has given everyone a thousand eyes both on them and on everyone else. Here either you either turn into a self-hating husk or you become better than you are.

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-Gluttony: Is once upon a time the polar opposite to Lust, being more about embracing physical desires and consuming whatever you can in this mortal plane without thought of the spiritual. This sin represents the basest instincts, the parts of people that are still animals deep down. If gluttony is involved then something is being consumed by someone, or being cultivated for the day it is inevitably devoured. Those of this Sin see what feels good, what tastes good, and make it theirs reveling in the splendor and feasting upon it all while wearing a mask that hides the animal inside.

-Wrath: is to rage, to choose conflict over compromise, to fight for victory rather than settling for defeat, but these aren't simply the angry warriors, the ruthless rogues or the violent murderers, these are the sports lovers, the gamers, those who rage and riot at the thought of defeat and lash out at anything that may cause it. This is a society for those born to compete, where war, sports, and fun are all the same thing and of course in a world where life and death are cheap what better competition is there than the kind to leave one's body bloody and bruised and their opponent dead on the floor.

-Sloth: Often is seen simply as laziness, a refusal to keep up and act, but is sometimes something that is needed to keep a person from breaking under the physical or mental stresses of the world, even if it may result in an apathetic gloom falling over one's perception of their reality. Those who embody this sin are either those who entertain and heal the wary body and souls of the masses or are those who ignore reality around them, refusing to change, to act, and simply doing as they always have. In this society you're either a drone with no purpose or the one keeping the drones going.

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"At the very least this sounds like it'll be more fun than the old man's silver city. After all, if you aren't Sinning then you aren't Winning."

-The Morning Star, King of Pride