Most entities in New Eden are incurably dishonest and malicious....

You seem to think my statement is somehow 'inky black' or 'villanous'. They're strong words, sure, but gather together any random selection of human beings and start gauging their honesty, selfishness and so on. Are you willing to wager on what the majority will qualify as?

Now throw institutional selfishness and greed into the picture and you have pretty much any entity of relevance in New Eden.

Think they come out any better than the random selection?

People are just people indeed, and individually none of them are heroes, villains, truly righteous or truly evil. This doesn't change that as a species we're tribal, we're 'us vs them', we're hard-wired for self-preservation at the expense of others if necessary and equally hard-wired not to be able to truly empathize with any significant amount of other people. This isn't evil, this isn't villainous or any of the sort.

... but it does mean that entities in New Eden that aren't incurably dishonest and malicious are truly few and far between.

Nuance is all well and good, but that doesn't mean the big picture doesn't remain rather ugly.

I act this way because every time I assumed someone wasn't out to harm my people - intentionally or otherwise, it turns out they were.

Every.

Time.

This is not hyperbole. This isn't pessimism, misanthropy or paranoia. It's documented history. You can try to dismiss my views and stance on things with your shade, but this is just how it is. Trusting my people's safety to actual avowed enemies is probably the dumbest possible thing anyone can do, by both logic and proven history.

This may not play into your agenda or naivete, but that's just how it is.

I act this way because every time I assumed someone wasn't out to harm my people...

"My people". These are two words that you say a lot and like every over used phrase you can only repeat it so many times before it loses all meaning to anybody still listening. Who are your people, Mizhara? Who are these poor, defenseless innocents that you claim to protect? Are you protecting them from your cushy seat in MC? Are you somehow better placed now to judge those in less noble professions than outright piracy?

You spent so long trying to protect your "people" from the likes of me, and you failed utterly. And yet you're still here claiming to fight the good fight with words and a complete lack of action. Put your ISK where your mouth is, if only so the next time we slap your filthy, tattoo spoiled face we might have some of it fall out.

', I suppose that'll have to wait until the day you grow the fortitude required to fight someone a tad less vulnerable than humanitarian organizations or the Pendulum War participants.

Point out any of my people within my reach I have abandoned and I'll pay you every ISK I own and transfer the Hel as well.

@Aria: Deflecting with that looks an awful lot like not having an answer.

There you go. "My people" again. You still haven't told me who you're fighting for in YC119. Do you even know anymore?

She'd told you but you don't seem to understand the concept. Her people are her own. She protects who she can. It doesn't matter where she or any of us is or are.

Speaking of, do you think that the State will issue any kind of apology to the family of those that lost their lives? What are your opinions on the matter of the itchy trigger finger of those involved? This seems more prudent a topic to discuss and I am interested in your reply.

Now I'm interested to know why you'd be interested in my reply. Meta.

@Aria, I don't need to 'trust your perceptions' or agree with them. I just idly wonder if you have any that you yourself consider valid, because when you deflect rather than respond, it looks a lot like you do not and I hope I'm wrong about that.

a small shiny object worth less than an ISK.

Your disappointment is, to me, in line with your other political opinions, Miz.

Warped. Unreliable. Worthless.

Dust.

It doesn't make you wrong, mind. It's more that your opinion is without weight.

That's actually a little remarkable. So, I maybe should apologize for coming back to it again; it's just that finding that I actually am totally disregarding someone's opinion, it's unusual enough that I kind of end up dwelling on why.

Because Arrendis is of course correct: it does mean devaluing your experience. I need to be careful.

Interesting, I find her opinions something other entirely.

... and that went downhill as soon as the first guest arrived naked.