角色故事•四（解锁条件：角色等级80）
许多人认为拉帝奥加入博识学会后，会一改从前的锋芒，以适应学会讲求实际、平和朴实的学术环境。但笔者不得不说，拉帝奥还是那个拉帝奥。以下是笔者节录的内部记录原文：
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答辩人：维里塔斯•拉帝奥
题目：逻辑知识论
委员会主席：罗塞思
记录人：莫里微
答辩实录：
罗塞思：‘拉帝奥先生，您的论文十分精彩，感谢您的讲解。现在，有请听众提问。’
现场一片沉寂。
罗塞思：‘那…拉帝奥先生，我先来吧。’
罗塞思：‘我非常赞成你的主要观点，但对其中一个细节，我依然有些不解。’
维里塔斯•拉帝奥：‘每次别人赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。’
罗塞思：‘我的问题是，为何您会认为知识是一种特权？’
维里塔斯•拉帝奥：‘尊敬的罗塞思教授，您问出这样的问题，就代表您根本没有读懂我的论文，也并不理解我运用的推导方法。’
维里塔斯•拉帝奥：‘但若要简单回答，您倒是提供了一个现成的例子。您无法理解我的观点，正恰恰说明知识并非人人都能享有。’
维里塔斯•拉帝奥：‘倘若愚钝是一种顽疾，学者的职责便是将其根除，医治宇宙。’
维里塔斯•拉帝奥走向讲台，面向众人：‘所以诸位，对他人的愚蠢视而不见，并非礼仪，而是一种缺德的世故。若要传播知识，必先让人理解自身的愚蠢。当然，学会的学者对自己也应当一视同仁。’
罗塞思耸肩苦笑。
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维里塔斯•拉帝奥在一片哗然中退场。
答辩评语：激情的手握住冰冷的剑，这或许是对维里塔斯•拉帝奥先生最形象的评语。维里塔斯•拉帝奥将逻辑、狂热与批评艺术结合在一起，向我们展现了一个卓越的思想家面对无知的思考与行动。我们坚信，拉帝奥先生的加入会为博识学会带来莫大的益处。
答辩委员会意见：一致通过。
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博识学会内部素有“庸众院”的传闻，据称这一神秘组织汇集了学会的最强大脑。而拉帝奥以“庸人”自居，仿佛无形中印证了这一流言。联想到他和天才俱乐部的纠葛，这个名字总令人浮想联翩。庸人作为天才的反义词，往往要付出巨大的努力和代价才能追及后者的辙迹。拉帝奥自称庸人，到底是一种退缩，还是一种嘲讽，抑或是一种宣战？但无论如何，他以知识治疗思想之病的执着，无愧于“真理医生”之名。
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——摘自《智慧之为特权：解密真理医生》第二百三十页
Character Story: Part IV
• Unlocked at Character Level 80
Many believe that after joining the Intelligentsia Guild, Ratio will learn to smooth out his sharp personality to adapt to the Guild's practical and simplistic academic environment. But I must say Ratio is still his old self. Below is the original excerpt from the internal records that I have transcribed:
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Respondent: Veritas Ratio
Subject: Logical Epistemology
Chairman of the Committee: Roseth
Transcriber: Morriway
Defense Transcript:
Roseth: Mr. Ratio, your paper is exceptional. Thank you for your presentation. Now, we will open the floor for questions.
There was a silence.
Roseth: Well, I'll do the honor then.
Roseth: I fully concur with your main ideas, but there's a detail that I find slightly confusing.
Veritas Ratio: Whenever someone agrees with me, I feel like I must be wrong.
Roseth: My question is, why do you think knowledge is a privilege?
Veritas Ratio: Dear Professor Roseth, your question indicates that you haven't fully grasped the content of my paper and do not understand the deductive methods I employed.
Veritas Ratio: To put it simply, you would be a great example. Your inability to comprehend my ideas shows precisely that knowledge is not for everyone.
Veritas Ratio: If ignorance is an ailment, it is the duty of scholars to weed it out and heal the universe.
Veritas Ratio walked to the podium, facing the crowd. Veritas Ratio: So, ladies and gentlemen, turning a blind eye to the folly of others is not an etiquette, but a wicked worldly practice. To spread knowledge, we must first make people realize their folly. The same surely applies to the scholars of the Guild.
Roseth shrugged and smiled bitterly.
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Veritas Ratio left amid the commotion.
Remark: A passionate hand holding an icy sword — that is probably the best way to describe Mr. Veritas Ratio. By blending logic, passion, and the art of criticism into one, Ratio presents to us how a great thinker perceives and reacts to ignorance. We strongly believe that the addition of Mr. Veritas Ratio will bring immeasurable benefits to the Intelligentsia Guild.
Committee Decision: Approved unanimously.
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There are words about a mysterious organization within the Intelligentsia Guild called the "Council of Mundanites" that houses the brightest minds of the Guild. The fact that Ratio calls himself a Mundanite seems to affirm the rumor. It is hard not to read something into the organization's name, given Ratio's entangled history with the Genius Society. The mundane, as opposed to the ingenious, often has to make enormous efforts and sacrifices just to catch up with the latter. Is Ratio calling himself mundane a form of submission, mockery, or declaration of war? Anyway, he does live up to his name of Dr. Ratio with his dedication to curing ill minds with knowledge.
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Extracted from page 230, Wisdom as a Privilege: Decoding Dr. Ratio
