Aria Jenneth
Caldari
Kumiho's Smile
Naraka.
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Posted - 2011.01.22 00:11:00 -
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Here's one for you, Doctor.
Assume for starters that people do not love change. They also do not like being coerced into things. Yes, someone who gets invaded by the Amarr would have to deal with all of that; same with the Angel Cartel, the Blood Raiders, etc.
... Anyone who's invading anybody, really.
Except that, most of those who are invaded can at least be sure that what they become will bear some nodding resemblance to what they are now. They'll still be able to smile, and laugh, and think up witty jokes, and sing. They might even be able to rebel. See, e.g., the Minmatar.
Their existence will still be "human," if you like. The fundamentals remain the same.
Now, not only is this apparently not-so-very-much the case with the Nation, but you merry lot seem bent on sticking it down EVERYBODY'S necks-- and not in some hypothetical future age, like the Amarr (now that their Reclaiming's run into three empire-sized obstacles).
No, you're "uplifting" our friends and families, and you're doing it right now.
That means that absolutely everybody outside of your friends in the Blood Raiders and the Guristas has excellent reason to hate and fear you: you mean to take away all that they have, and it's unclear what you propose to replace it with.
Even if their identities survive, what will be going on inside their heads? Will the result be peace-- or will they spend their long lives begging for death in voices no one can hear?
Even if you can answer this question, there's no way we, or anyone, can trust your answer, not from a source whose own ability to speak, or even recognize, the truth is so suspect.
Maybe if you could provide independently-verified proof, but the Nation's never been exactly forthcoming with that.
That all being the case, there is no reason at all why we shouldn't treat you as though you intended genocide on us all. Because, as far as we can tell, that's exactly what you intend-- not the deaths of our bodies, but of our identities, and not even just our present "stations" in life, but of our very ability to make decisions.
It's not anything as trite as "freedom" that you threaten. It's the existence and integrity of the self.
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