In front of a group of people? Yeah, actually, it is. That would be the definition of politics; that is, getting a large number of people to do what you want them to. I could want people to embrace world peace, it'd still be politics if I told them about it.

Though I do not attempt to absolve politics to be of a less than genuine way of getting people to do what you want, it is not entirely evil. You can do what's right by society, you can do what's right by the person who is with you, you can do what is scientifically correct, the list goes on and on. What is "right" depends on what your interests are. While I would normally say "mass slaughter" is a bad thing, there are also times when doing the "right" thing will result in a large number of deaths.

What FFX-2 fails to accomplish in this area is to provide any form of alternative opinion and fails to encourage discussion, or at the very least, a way to show that its style of thinking is superior. I do not believe that large-scale, violent disputes can be solved by singing, dressing in frilly clothes, and invoking the authority of a dead person from 1000 years ago.

I see you've never hit on a girl with an opening line that is a variation of "I'm dying." Any form of sexuality or affection is a common result. I can see you've never tried hit the "denial" stage of accepting death. People laugh about it all the time; otherwise, they'd never be able to live with someone else dying, and as a result, mass suicide chains would ultimately result.

What it boils down to, is that this is a thread that asks people for their opinions. What matters to me is how much I care. I cared about what would happen to the two characters in The Spring. I did not care about the concert in FFX-2, because it was so contrived and I could not possibly believe that this situation could possibly ever happen, and that if it did, I would not have cared less. FFX-2 failed to evoke anything other than my indifference, and as such, to me, The Spring was a far superior scene. In a literal sense, it was sex versus bad politics. Can you guess which one I would prefer?