User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 324: The One Who Closes The Door, Review./@comment-4047931-20130324131002/@comment-5668006-20130324180225

@Conza, read through all of these comments first then reply because the last one I just posted before you posted this one is very relevant to what I posted the first time. For you, you feel that Natsu losing would thicken the plot, however like I mentioned for me it would ruin the plot. If a villain (I get it Rogue isn't a villain but he is currently an antagonist in this story) /antagonist beats someone in a fight, they should kill them. What is this pokemon where when you lose a fight you faint? That's just plain silly. In the GMG fights ended with K.O.s. If Rogue was serious about changing the future then he obviously knows that if he just knocked Natsu out then went and killed Lucy in order to save Natsu? (lol you're joking right) then Natsu would never forgive him and try to kill him... Rogue is intelligent enough to know that. So if he wins the most logical thing for him to do is finish off Natsu.

If rogue beat Natsu then let him live, then went and killed Lucy, all for the sake of saving everyone including Natsu... That is like saying, "hey, I killed your best friend because I care about you." That is for a lack of a better word, insane.

Also back on this whole survival thing. The human race is one of the weakest (physically) group of animals on earth. However the reason we are the dominate race of animals is because we are more intelligent. Your example was flawed, anyone who is stuck in a cave trapped by a boulder will die unless they have something capable of either A: moving the boulder or B: finding another way out or C: getting outside help. Also, being trapped in a cave by a boulder does not equal being basically slaves for a superior race of beings.

The better example would have been using WW2 concentration camps as an example. Survivors like Eli Weisel survived by running hundreds of miles without food and hiding from people with guns.

Slaves on the run away rail road survived by hiding as well.

The human race survived living in the wilderness by using weapons they created with their wits not their strength.

I never said rogue didn't get stronger, I clearly said he must be strong to swallow up a militia with just his body. I just said, we can't use the fact that he has advanced 7 years and survived in a world full of dragons to make him so strong that Natsu/Jellal couldn't beat him.

Now, keep in mind that we still don't know when F. Rogue got here in the first place. Jellal said in an earlier chapter that they felt this presence for 7 years. Rogue could have been here for 7 years waiting for Natsu to come back...