Maybe, or maybe not. What is irrational is the way that feeling makes a person behave. You've already said so yourself! More than that, of course, is that such strong attachment means we might be in danger of placing something before our duty to the Emperor. And we can't have that, now can we?
[ Of course, that's a joke, seeing as his Legion did exactly that. But that was for the sake of loyalty to their Primarch and their own pleasure, not the topic at hand. ]
Still, no one who has dwelled within the Eye of Terror as long as I have has any right to speak of irrationality as a failing. Our very existence is insanity at its core. No, whatever the form our emotions take, the only virtue that exists is to embrace them fully - without the shackles of restraint or logic. I hope you weren't expecting to hear me say otherwise!
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More than that, of course, is that such strong attachment means we might be in danger of placing something before our duty to the Emperor. And we can't have that, now can we?
[ Of course, that's a joke, seeing as his Legion did exactly that. But that was for the sake of loyalty to their Primarch and their own pleasure, not the topic at hand. ]
Still, no one who has dwelled within the Eye of Terror as long as I have has any right to speak of irrationality as a failing. Our very existence is insanity at its core.
No, whatever the form our emotions take, the only virtue that exists is to embrace them fully - without the shackles of restraint or logic.
I hope you weren't expecting to hear me say otherwise!