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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.08.28 13:40:00 -
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The question falsely equates "stable" with "peaceful".
Stability just means that you're not trending inexorably towards total collapse. And it has its place. Think of cap-stability in ship fitting. Sure, if you're in for a long-haul fight and are well supported then cap-stability is a desirable trait, but in fact you don't need to be cap-stable to get the job done. An unstable ship will kill a cap-stable ship if the cap-stable ship explodes before the unstable one runs dry. The whole principle behind overheating is that you play some brinkmanship, weighing the dwindling tolerances of your equipment versus your foe's durability.
One the other side of things, a cap-stable ship doesn't remain indefinitely on 49% cap or whatever. It'll wobble around and below that mark as various modules call upon the ship's reserves.
So "stability" is just the situation you're in where the losses are counterbalanced by the gains, and vice versa. Or at the very least, where the losses are acceptable and can be compensated for. Stability, in other words, just means that you're not on a one-way trip to failure.
Which we're not. The CEMWPA isn't going to lead to the failure of any of the Big Four. There IS stability between them in that sense.
But there's not peace. And yes, on balance, I'm in favour of peace.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.08.28 16:25:00 -
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Pilot Blake, I'd just like to thank you for providing a perfect explanation of what's wrong with desiring complete political stability.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.08.28 17:02:00 -
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It's only a war when people forget how to balance them correctly.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.08.29 03:11:00 -
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How about we abandon the idea of there being a hard-and-fast rule about what lies where on the spectrum that contains anarchy, hmm?
There's no algorithm for this. In all the centuries of human history, nobody's yet programmed an app that calculates to seven decimal places the precisely optimal ratio of chaos to whatever its opposite may be. We are, I hope, never going to turn to a computer and have it spit out a ream of figures saying that it will be optimal for our society if X many ships are destroyed for the loss of Y lives. I don't think such a calculable "sweet spot" exists.
The most any of us can do is act according to our best judgement.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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