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== His Evil Plan == Just 'cause a guy's got a plan, doesn't make him sane. === The Underlying 'Reasoning' === His defeat by Hoth and Flock was the catalyst that made Lamb Shank realise that he'd never be God by the accumulation of force. No matter how strong he became magically, physically, or through military domination, there was no way he could ever be as strong as or stronger than He that is stronger that strength. Not to mention that he knew that he couldn't even be the strongest guy around, since Uzi and Enzi would both beat him there. This angered him greatly, but then he started reflecting on the nature of God and authority. A King has authority because he controls the army and police, meaning he is the most powerful man in the kingdom. That power equals authority because he can throw disadents in prison, or even execute them. Said another way, the King's authority is based upon the threat of destruction. Lamb Shank then reflected that God is God by virtue of His unlimited power, like the King's army, and that likewise He rules the world by virtue of the implied threat of the universe's destruction if it rebels. God is God because He can destroy the world. This got Lamb Shank thinking - suppose ''he'' destroyed the world. That would make him God. After all, the proof is in the pudding - if he is the one to wipe it out, he will, in a funny way, ''always'' have been God. The problem is that he didn't have the strength to destroy the world, strong as he was. But Uzi and Enzi would. === The Threads of a Scheme === If he could manipulate one of the two of them, even both of them, into destroying the world, then he would be God by virtue of being the one to have instigated it. So the question is: How does one convince them to do it? Three basic facts about Enzi and Uzi became obvious to him in his observations: * They're both naturally violent. * They both have very strong moral impulses. * They both love each other very much. So he contrived this basic plan: He would set up Enzi's 'adventure' and Uzi's 'success' so as to progressively increase their strength to an appropriately high level, Uzi overcoming various gangs, and Enzi fighting the Legendary Swords. Once one of them has become as powerful enough for him to set them on their way, he would drop this bomb on them; the fact that the Black Aspect, which they hate so much, was infact present in everything, pervading all life and staining every aspect so universially so as to be totally undetected by their senses. This revelation, considering their strict 'evil must be punished' philosophy, would drive them to destroy the planet and even themselves. It got better: by keeping them seperate, if one of them happened to die, then the other would go mad with grief and more doggedly do the deed. In this way the two acted as contingencies to each other. Even if Lamb Shank died in the process, in his own head at least, he would have completed his task. === Where It All Goes Wrong === Enzi's moral philosophy develops significantly as the story progresses, and by the time he faces Lamb Shank, he has come to accept to some degree that sometimes issues are too complex for him, as well has come to appreciate Good for its own sake, and not just focusing on his hatred of evil. These realisations coupled with a strong feeling that destroying the world would be wrong, eradicating the good with the bad, help him to overcome his strong horror and gut reaction, and he ignores Lamb Shank. The dictator can't abide by that and yells childishly, mentioning his 'Daddy' and giving away the fact that this is about his Dad more than anything.
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