[Taocow PBEM] Book 3 - Chapter V - The Debate - and a little more

[Kitsune]

ooc: I am not trying to retire Alex but the way the situation is being 
presented, Alex does not trust them.

On 10/23/2011 08:22, difdi at comcast.net wrote:
>
> [Justin]
> "I could probably sneak you into the Emperor's bedroom to explain your 
> side, though getting out again could be a bit exciting.  It would be 
> arguably easier to kidnap him first, come to think of it.  Given how 
> much the Coalition is rumored to hate magic, it's a fair bet they 
> don't have wards capable of containing a God."
>
> He pauses, then continues:
>
> "You shouldn't judge every nation by the standards of a fascist one.  
> Monarchies run through quite a range of moralities, from your 
> Coalition to truly constitutional ones with the King or Emperor merely 
> as a figurehead for a democracy.  My own homeland is a monarchy, and 
> even more absolute than the Coalition States, but even there, the King 
> takes his oaths as a Knight very seriously.  Deliberate injustice is 
> very uncommon there, the last crooked magistrate took over a year to 
> die.  Those who take oaths seriously tend to REALLY dislike oathbreakers."
> [/Justin]


-- 
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope of reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed -
- Albert Einstein, German-born American Physicist

Kitsune
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