User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/SFW Summer Awards 2012! ~ Smash's Votes/@comment-3055003-20120830151857/@comment-1942179-20120830162822

Take it from a guy with an official fighter as a main character. There's a difference between fighting for life, and just plain fighting.

You make it sound so dramatic and desperate, but when it boils down to it, There is nothing to gain in beating Solar, except bragging rights. It's not like he's going to pay you if you win, or he's holding someone hostage, or he killed your family or anything like that. As far as I can tell, this is all just a bitter rivalry that stemmed Sol making a mockery of Micheal.

"To not fight means to not live." I've never even heard of such a motto. If that were really true, then this is some crapsack world we're living in. Also, fighting to survive: In this case, if he chose not to fight Solar than he would survive, wheras if he did he "might" end up dying.