Kriszz
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Posted - 2005.10.14 12:52:00 -
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Before I begin I'd just like to say that what follows is my own personal view, it is not necessarily the view of my corp or alliance.
I'm sad I have to put that disclaimer in, but with the propensity of some people to either misquote or quote things out of context I guess it's probably important for me to say it.
To the JF guys and gals, I think the major problem that we are facing here is that people are talking at cross-purposes.
You asked for a justification of why CEI had certain groups at certain standings, now this was answered by Fred and co. some are due to disputes, some are due to "personal differences" others are due to friendships/alliances. Most of the corps involved in this know why their standings are they way they are.
Now once these answers are provided to you, you seek to justify why each of those cases is valid or not, you shift the argument away from the reasons and started questioning the internal politics of the corp/alliance. Now here we have a problem, you don't accept some of the internal reasoning and you insist that CEI cannot present a free-space alliance because their reasoning and rationale doesn't marry up to your own.
Sadly people see and view things in different ways, this doesn't make any one view point invalid or wrong. It simply means that people have different points of view. Surely by the definition of some of your own ideals you don't want people to all be forced into the same way of thinking? I mean you are completely anti to the "mob mentality" are you not?
So CEI and JF do not exactly match on their view points, that I concede, are you wrong for your point of view, I'd say not, are we wrong for our point of view, again I'd have to say no. Are they different, absolutely.
Now whilst we may not fulfil all of your criteria for being a true free-space alliance look at what's happening in Pure Blind; we run operations against Pirates and others that we consider to be hostile. These operations don't just include members of the Razor alliance, they include the locals as well.
Now if you ask those guys if we force our standings on them you'll get a resounding no. We say who the targets of the op are, if they don't have a problem with them then they simply don't join us. We don't force them to, we don't threaten them. People here are individuals, they are allowed to make up their own minds.
Does that mean that if people we consider to be hostile turn up in PB and others don't want to fight that we call the whole thing off? No of course it doesn't, we have our enemies and we'll fight them.
Now obviously I've broken all the rules about being concise and eloquent, the 300 char limit disappeared paragraphs above but hey. You can't win 'em all and you can't keep everyone happy all of the time.
This doesn't just apply to my forum posting skills but also to the day-to-day running of corps and alliances. I'd love for everyone to just get along, have some entertaining debates and agree to disagree at times.
I do believe this is one of the occasions where agreeing to disagree is the right course of action.
Fred and the directors in my corp have a hard job, I'm sure the directors in your corps do as well, let's try and keep the game fun for them too 
And yes, clearly I do have far too much time on my hands, but I'm at work so that's fine 
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