Originally Posted by
Lucyinthesky
Ok now you made me think of them as cavemen looking to rule over the tribe and I loled at this, but I see your point and I do see part of this being behind their differences but I also see some context and rational reasons behind their different perspectives.
I once read a fan tell how they saw the different perspective of Xavier and Magneto comes from how they grew up, in Charles case, he lived well off financially speaking but emotionally his father died when he was young, his mother was an alcholic and he often had to take care of her, his stepfather and stepbrother abused him and he tried in all those circunstances to be the better person and not take revenge on them even if he had the means and power to do so, his power allowed him to see them as flawed people that needed correction and even if to this day he still has a hard time forgiving Cain´s abuse,he still can´t help but think with the correct approach Cain can become a good person and he did to a point. So from Charles pov coexistence depends greatly on people´s personal choices and institutions are built around those people.
In Magneto´s case, he came from a loving family who had a good life before the war, with a very loving father who was proud of being Jewish and German and of his country acomplishments but when things got hard and the country his father loved turned on them, his father still hold some hope in people while his uncle Erich tought it was dangerous to take that perspective and they should take actions, in the end his father agreed but the family could not survive the war and Max(Magneto) had to survive by himself, alone but didn´t quite had the hope to make it either until he reunited with Magda, then them both fleed and married and he took on his uncle name "Erik". From his pov, the system failed his dad and his people, the system killed Anya and while he easily could see the reason behind that, he also learned that sometimes instituations can be quite inhumane to people if they see them as an obstacle to it´s objectives, so he came to the conclusion that if people are not part of the systems of power, especially if they happen to be vulnerable, they will be overcome and destroyed at some point,just in this case, it will be the case for mutants.
They started having this argument back on Israel and I think its telling that when Magneto told this to Charles, Charles thought he was a little drunk, because surely his good friend Magnus would agree with him on this? while for Magneto Charles looked too naive but well intentioned and noble and probably thought the world would just break his good friend heart. Of course there´s also both their egos at work, we can´t take that out of the equation but I think their previous and mostly unconscious memories are at work for a lot of their fights.
Like even when they said to each other "you are like a brother to me" they are not talking about the same thing, when Charles thinks of brother is both the idealized brother he wanted to have and... Cain and when Magnus thinks of brother is an idealized brother but also his sister who died in the war along with the rest of his family, that he failed to protect, in his mind and I seriously doubt both of those guys have ever come close to getting into those motivations, they argue over the present and keep subcouncious how much they are also talking about both their past imo.