>>64509466
>he reason why all the other factions are completely cutthroat, authoritarian and awful is because that's what you need to be to survive in a world of callous, hateful conflict and unending warfare
But here's the thing: You don't.

This is the same retarded logic that the Russians have. "Our lives need to be miserable and shitty because it makes us TOUGH and STRONG MEN WIN WARS!" And then they get blown up by some drone because it turns out that economics and logistics and technology and planning wins wars.