Law&Faith - TTT

[Misotu]

 

My dear Brother, it seems to me that you have truly lost your way. The Lord would *not* approve. Not even in jest.

[Kirov]

Actually, the Bible is fuzzy here. There's a lot of ins, a lot of outs, it's really not that simple.

[Misotu]

    I haven't yet found the passage relating to gassing young people, but I defer to you Brother. You're the expert on these matters.

The Charter is pretty clear, IIRC.

Another transport dead. Ho hum ...

[Kirov]

Look, all I'm saying is give war a chance. Our current attitude towards atrocities is nothing but prejudice, fear and negative labels.

[Misotu]

A good point, well made Brother. But in the years since Planetfall the Peacekeeper settlements have grown. Not impressively, I'll admit, and not as well as we'd have liked. Nevertheless, we are fond of them and have no wish to see them replaced with smoking rubble full of gassed ... er ... meat.

A minor point, we know, but one dear to our hearts.

[Kirov]

Dear Sister, I would never attack you or let anybode else do it, how could you even think that?! No, the smoking rubble and gassed meat would of course be a problem of our enemies. You told me yourself some other factions were belligerent, didn't you? Just tell me which ones and I'll do the talking.

[Misotu]

Enough of this suspicion and mistrust! We have faith in you Brother Kirov*.

OK, you talked me into it. Rubble Dee a bit. Vendetta on the noble Peacekeepers indeed! Who does she think she is? 


*  Probably

[Kirov]

You said it, Sister! Deirdre attacked me as well, but a Vendetta on my closest friend and ally*? That does it! Lady Deirdre, there is no place for your warmongering and hate peddling on our Planet and disciplinary action will soon be taken!

* Probably

[Misotu]

Knew we could count on you Bro   

[Kirov]

Do you have any bone to pick with Domai, per chance? He's much closer.

[Misotu]

Domai hates me, of course    But no vendetta yet. Probably only a matter of time ...

Morgan started the Citizens defence thing. I'm out tonight so that's my last turn until tomorrow.

[Kirov]

Here you go and see you tomorrow.

[Misotu]

Oh well, back home and couldn't resist despite the wine. No doubt I will regret this tomorrow when I look it over    Over to you, my ever-more-powerful-on-the-graph Brother Kirov 

[Kirov]

Well, that would be the magic of pop-boom. I'm looking forward to your tree farms at work. Meanwhile, the Ascetic Virtues will be soon embraced by our faction! Although it's really just formality, considering our modest living.

[Kirov]

And coming back to the Charter, I was thinking about it some more. You can look at it all this way- logically speaking, if we make the atrocities legal, they cease to be atrocities anymore. I mean, there will be no difference between them and other ordinary or extraordinary measures taken up by factions. And ‘measures’ are just that – ‘things people (factions) do’. So in a way, we will expand the scope of personal liberties. So in a way, this will be like Emancipation Proclamation, only much more progressive as it will give broader rights to all kinds of people, regardless of skin colour, gender or factional beliefs. In this perspective, repealing the Charter is actually the most UN thing you can do. Quod erat demonstrandum.