conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "You have your own sense of justice. That much is a given. But you’re naive to think politics is about justice opposing evil. Politics is always a conflict of justice against justice. If you want to enforce your vision of justice, you need the power to back it up."
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Mother…"
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "If you wish to change something, you must do it yourself. Those without power have no voice."
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  Nonsense. Everything she said was illogical nonsense…and yet, there was truth within it. No matter how lofty your ideals, they meant nothing if you didn’t have the power to put them into practice. No wonder they called politics a struggle for power. Even so—
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Mother… Acquiring power in itself is adding zeros."
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "What are you saying?"
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  Philine wouldn’t bend. In the face of Dorothea’s overwhelming authority, she continued, unfaltering. "No matter how many zeros you add up together, their value remains null. Only when you put something before those zeros, like justice, does the number have value. But if that justice were twisted, the number would only equate to the degree of violence you’d incite."
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  What Philine was trying to say was this: No matter how many zeros you had, they would always equal zero. But the moment you put an integer in front of them, the zeros transformed into a mighty number. But if that integer was something negative, then the more power—in other words, the more zeros—you had, the more terrible the end result. "If your notion of justice is flawed, all the power in the world can’t right it. I accept that power is important, Mother, but being just is even more so. Your way of thinking is wrong." Philine, still restrained by the guards, declared this with resolve. The once weak-willed girl now debated her mother on an equal footing.
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "You would say I’m wrong?"
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Yes."
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "I’m impressed. You’re the first to speak out against me like this. I’m sure you know what this means?"
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "I do." Philine’s face was as tranquil as a martyr’s. No. This isn’t the way, Philine. She was betting her life to try to appeal to her mother, but that wasn’t going to work for her. If one wanted to preach their justice, their ideals, they had to live long enough to see them through. Dying achieved nothing. Claire had thought to do the same during the revolution, but there was nothing noble about dying for your ideals. I wasn’t about to let her go like this. But just as I was about to beg Dorothea to spare Philine, a voice interrupted.
conversations.prefix: Philine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Please wait, Your Majesty." It was Josef.
conversations.prefix: Josef:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Stay out of this, old man."
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "I’m afraid I cannot do that. Lady Philine is an extraordinarily brilliant individual. I believe she is more suited to rule than your other children, who don’t have the heart to speak against you." He spoke calmly, as though trying to pacify her.
conversations.prefix: Josef:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "But she has defied me."
conversations.prefix: Dorothea:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Lady Philine is still young."
conversations.prefix: Josef: