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A funny thing that sometimes happens is that someone holds a opinion shallow-P and convinces you to hold it too. But then you go deeper than they did to deep-P, get more attached to it, while they change their mind to shallow notP. A nerdsniping + shallow-horseshoe effect.
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I notice this in a bunch of stories – like the protagonist is getting taught to do some mild crime, light treason... and doesn't really want to... but then eventually ends up running the whole damn syndicate and probably has to kill the mentor who says "wow... u are Truly Evil"
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yea i guess more broadly it's like the... "the 2nd in command / the intern / the sidekick is actually the one with the most potential / latent power level". can see why that would be narratively appealing. and definitely *does* happen IRL
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