Funny, coming from a man who is fighting to place the whole cluster into a torturer's chains.

Using "temper tantrums" to describe the Amarr is a statement much farther from the truth than you could make.

I fear that describing them in the manner they deserve to be described in would be too inflammatory for this setting, no matter how fitting.

You may have an issue with how Amarr do business but there's no sense in making insults about how they act, especially when they're false, should you hope to debate or negotiate.

Or perhaps you're just another one of those tiresome pundits with no interest in talking but simply want to gain ratings and cheap points.

-Eran

Are you saying he doesn't have a point, Starfire?

Verone was, is, and will always be, one of my closest friends.

Oh, dear. I hope that doesn't ruin people's opinion of me...

On the same page? What would you mean by that?

-Eran

It's telling, though very sad, that people make such grand assumptions merely based on race.

-Eran

Such is the way of humanity. Usually the most extreme of behaviour is what stands out, so people form generalisations based off those extremes. Those generalisations lead to prejudice which tends to blind people to the good as they focus on the bad.

It's telling, though very sad, that people make such grand assumptions merely based on race.

-Eran

Using "temper tantrums" to describe the Amarr is a statement much farther from the truth than you could make.

Getting surprised by the good in your enemies is never a serious problem. I remember one of my first meetings with Kyllsa Siikanen was her bringing me some of the best soup I've ever tasted when I was in hospital.

Getting surprised by the bad in your enemies, however...

Anytime, Pieter. People should share soup more.

I cannot help thinking we'd be better off for it.

Soup and fraternization with the enemy. And they say I derail threads.

You know, even if you weren't a toaster, you'd make no friends with that attitude.

...I can assure you it has nothing to do with race, I merely misunderstood what you were saying. Stop race baiting, it only makes you look like a fool. Only people who are insecure about their ethnic background would resort to such a thing or those wishing to take the moral high ground in a conversation. Unfortunately for you, I won't allow any of that.

When you said:

I personally interpreted it as "you didn't describe the Amarr bad enough" rather than "you didn't describe them in a good way". This fault is purely mine and I acknowledged it. As much as you would like to think, race has nothing to do with it.

It's quite ironic actually. You're calling me out on making assumptions, when the only one making assumptions here is you.

Actually pilot, you are making assumptions. You've made several so far; one is that you assumed that I was stating "you didn't describe the Amarr bad enough", and two, that we are on the same page.

I wonder if you would've said the same things had I looked like a Ni-Kunni or Khanid? I would wager, if I was a gambling man, that the answer to that is a definitive "no."

Secondly, I have neither insecurity about my ethnic background, nor am I trying to take any kind of moral high-ground. I am quite proud of my ethnicity, and morals...well, I do my best to stick to mine but it often puts them at odds with each other. This prevents me from taking much of any "high-ground", and I'm quite aware of that.

Thirdly, if I may, the point I was trying to make wasn't that "you didn't describe them in a good way", which is another assumption you make, but rather that you were being purposefully inaccurate with how you describe Amarrians. I neither meant to say Amarr are good nor bad, but that painting someone as a child is not something befitting anyone who intends to have a real discussion with any human-being.

-Eran

Soup and fraternization with the enemy. And they say I derail threads.

Finally, if an Amarrian can regularly look down on the rest of the cluster with a false sense of superiority I think someone should be able to paint them as a child once in a while.

Soup and fraternization with the enemy. And they say I derail threads.

Superiority based upon a feeling that one's culture is the best, and that everyone else should follow it...

Pot, kettle.

The kettle being genocidal, slaver, zealots and the pot helping other civilizations to the stars and treating member states equally.

Sure, we have similar desires, but our differing methodologies make it pointless to try and draw any parallels.