Ahh, I've only read a scattering of DW - er, DiscWorld! mass abbreviation conflict, Cap'n, the engines are failing! - so don't know this bit...what exactly is his meaning?
Oh, sorry. "Personal is not the same thing as important" -- It's not exactly "the end justifies the means"; it's more like, doing the right thing is more important than acting on one's personal feelings -- or, in the specific context of that particular scene, obeying the law (and keeping to one's moral code) is more important than taking revenge for one's girlfriend getting killed. (And Vimes's opinion on the whole thing is that leaving personal feelings out of the equation entirely is more dangerous than leaving them in.)
It's not an exact parallel, and it's difficult right now to come up with specific instances of scenes that made me think of the Doctor that way -- that for him, the individual or the personal wasn't nearly as important as the bigger picture.
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Ahh, I've only read a scattering of DW - er, DiscWorld! mass abbreviation conflict, Cap'n, the engines are failing! - so don't know this bit...what exactly is his meaning?
Oh, sorry. "Personal is not the same thing as important" -- It's not exactly "the end justifies the means"; it's more like, doing the right thing is more important than acting on one's personal feelings -- or, in the specific context of that particular scene, obeying the law (and keeping to one's moral code) is more important than taking revenge for one's girlfriend getting killed. (And Vimes's opinion on the whole thing is that leaving personal feelings out of the equation entirely is more dangerous than leaving them in.)
It's not an exact parallel, and it's difficult right now to come up with specific instances of scenes that made me think of the Doctor that way -- that for him, the individual or the personal wasn't nearly as important as the bigger picture.