i think that's a genuine cultural misalignment, rivalry in like kids sports or whatever isn't designed to be hateful like they are in the US and i assume most of the commonwealth has similar brainworms.
you're supposed to push eachother to do better, not throw eggs or drop a toilet off at the highschool across town.
there are some accounts in one of the :parenti: books about how former communist, and particularly east german, people were hoodwinked and took everything they had from socialism for granted.
yeah i wanted advanced courses that weren't available to me and now i'm a burnout who thinks we should require some general education hours for all adults every year for your entire life.
wait i thought china collapsed like two months ago?
thought you were neera for a second
but no, it is just a hasty post hoc rationalization for returning to the A New Hope status quo.
the old extended universe wasn't perfect but holy shit is it better than JJ's stool
you don't get to decide for other people whether it is or isn't, and you can't know in advance whether someone will think it's worth the pain and suffering, so it's immoral to force people to live.
mine isn't you fucking asshole
but broad anti-natalism is eugenics
no it isn't. rich kids suffer too and it's immoral to force that upon them. treats don't make up for bullying or being assaulted by a priest etc. hell, there's even another angle where raising a kid rich is more likely to make them a sociopathic monster who goes on to harm others and it's probably immoral to create a person who is going to be an Ivy league fratboy.
it's been a minute but i don't think vegeta really fits the rivals thing in the first arc at least, he's just straight up enemy until... i forget how they get from that first fight into the android saga. i know they kinda let him off the hook later but that could just be liberalism.
i always thought he kinda sucked, i think at my school we liked piccolo and gotenks.