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Abnegation produces deeply serious people. people who automatically see things like need,” he says. “i’ve noticed that when people switch to dauntless, it creates some of the same types. erudite who switch to dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. candor who switch to dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. and abnegation who switch to dauntless become . . . i don’t know, soldiers, i guess. revolutionaries.
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Abnegation Produces Deeply Serious People. People Who

Veronica Roth
Abnegation produces deeply serious people. people who automatically see things like need,” he says. “i’ve noticed that when people switch to dauntless, it creates some of the same types. erudite who switch to dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. candor who switch to dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. and abnegation who switch to dauntless become . . . i don’t know, soldiers, i guess. revolutionaries.
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And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the dauntless, brave but cruel; the erudite, intelligent but vain; the amity, peaceful but passive; the candor, honest but inconsiderate; the abnegation, selfless but stifling.
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