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Rodtrik
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Posted - 2012.12.10 18:43:00 -
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Though it would send a powerful message...
The offending party claimed that the attack was also to send a message that no one was to cross the Serpentis. This seemed to also implicate (or attempted to) governmental organizations that they were not to cross the Serpentis.
While mass destruction is never a desirable outcome, I would say it is in this case. Take a city? Take a planet. Remind the criminals of their place. |
Rodtrik
Aphex Industries
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Posted - 2012.12.11 14:01:00 -
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Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Rodtrik wrote:Though it would send a powerful message...
The offending party claimed that the attack was also to send a message that no one was to cross the Serpentis. This seemed to also implicate (or attempted to) governmental organizations that they were not to cross the Serpentis.
While mass destruction is never a desirable outcome, I would say it is in this case. Take a city? Take a planet. Remind the criminals of their place. The point is that mass destruction doesn't solve problems unless you are in a position to make it complete. The last time the Gallente people seriously contemplated this solution to a problem it resulted in a civil war in the Federation, a long and expensive conflict and the creation of a hostile super-power right next door to Federation space. Counter productive.
What we Gallente did to the Caldari was absolutely uncalled for. We attempted to force ways onto a relatively non-belligerent society. For that, we are sorry.
But the Serpentis acted aggressively initially and wiped out an entire city for a few plants. There is a key difference between the mistake the Gallente made in attacking the Caldari that caused a civil war, and teaching a few thugs about their place on the interstellar hierarchy by cleaning house, so to speak. |
Rodtrik
Aphex Industries
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Posted - 2012.12.11 18:24:00 -
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So then what would you moral paragons of justice suggest as retaliation against the Serpentis? Threaten them with words? Waggle our fingers?
Someone suggested going after the leaders specifically. Do you think more leaders will not simply fill the vacuum and facilitate another raid against a city? Or perhaps an entire planet?
When do we have the right to strike back? Do we need to wait for one of our own worlds to be destroyed? Perhaps a station cracked from within by some criminal organization as a reminder that we are to kowtow to them or else. This isn't a sovereign nation we're talking about. It's a criminal organization.
Retribution must be delivered in some form, swiftly, and ruthlessly. |
Rodtrik
Aphex Industries
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Posted - 2012.12.11 19:04:00 -
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Stitcher wrote:Rodtrik wrote:Retribution must be delivered in some form, swiftly, and ruthlessly. Swiftly, ruthlessly and proportionately. Massive psychotic overkill is not the answer, it just perpetuates an escalating spiral of atrocities with no good outcome.
So we should wipe out one of their cities then? I could find this acceptable... |
Rodtrik
Aphex Industries
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Posted - 2012.12.11 19:13:00 -
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Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:Rodtrik wrote:Stitcher wrote:Rodtrik wrote:Retribution must be delivered in some form, swiftly, and ruthlessly. Swiftly, ruthlessly and proportionately. Massive psychotic overkill is not the answer, it just perpetuates an escalating spiral of atrocities with no good outcome. So we should wipe out one of their cities then? I could find this acceptable... So you want to go full psychotic, then. This is noted.
How is it psychotic? He said proportionate. A city for a city. How is this not proportionate? |
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