The narrative doesn't really work for me. I prefer to think of Delaine as a libertine with an evil mind, a heart of flint and an utterly criminal soul. Taking pleasure in all vices but never a virtue he commits unspeakable crimes simply because he can and it pleases him to do so. He is perhaps the perfect embodiment of human nature uninhibited by moral ambiguities.
Archon Delaine--Symbol of Eudaimonia.
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I agree Swifty. I think I just started thinking about why other systems might help and gave this a shot. And Monkey of course I see the predicament, as I'm sure the Founders of the USA did
Edit: Or even taking this from a Soviet Union, Maoist China and Hitler Germany perspective. There were leaders of other groups that supported all of these at one point or another and gave reason for it. We like to think that true evil is just true evil - but most truly evil occurrences are justified in the person or groups mind, often with books, propaganda etc.
I agree Swifty. I think I just started thinking about why other systems might help and gave this a shot. And Monkey of course I see the predicament, as I'm sure the Founders of the USA did
Edit: Or even taking this from a Soviet Union, Maoist China and Hitler Germany perspective. There were leaders of other groups that supported all of these at one point or another and gave reason for it. We like to think that true evil is just true evil - but most truly evil occurrences are justified in the person or groups mind, often with books, propaganda etc.
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Yeah yeah yeah show me the credits!
Pretty words allright, but talks cheap, money talks.
I have my own morals, I'll decide what to run where and for who.
Pretty words allright, but talks cheap, money talks.
I have my own morals, I'll decide what to run where and for who.
Being Greek, Google has no power over me when related to such terms.
But only the Alliance and Antal have the right to use such words. Archon most likely doesn't even have the mental cultivation required to comprehend the terms thrown around here. And I'd rather if Antal supporters avoided dictatorships when possible.
No. Enough of this trite moralism, and talk of freedom and corruption and rights and wrongs. These are lies to distract the weak from the encroaching night. Delaine is not some shepherd of the vulnerable, guiding his flock to their safe and soft promised land. He is the Archon: he is power itself, the power to make the world as he wishes by the knife or the cannon or the brand. The people have grown soft, stagnating these thousand years as they retreat into fantasies of justice and money and peace. They are prey for the man who will bend them to his will through the power that is his and for us the instruments of that power, and they can decide only whether they join it to their own gain or are destroyed to make way for it. To appeal to any justification for this is to delude yourself.
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There you go!!! That's the pirate scum we all know and love to hate! Unabashed, unapologetic, inhumane, brazen pirate scum.
Bravo!
We are many, of many ideals. We are strong, and overcome the weak. We are the Kumo Crew.
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If you would like to, then sure, why not
If you would not like to, then sure, why not
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What is this... someone who actually knows their political theories and philosophy, what?!
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Lol the moral highground is high indeed.
Well, a real life organization that operates like Archon probably stay mostly around 3rd world/war-filled countries. Archon isn't exactly a terrorist, since it never declared its absolute hatred for any faction, Empire on the other hand...
Anyway, it's basically a self-contained community. Don't intrude its way of life and it will stay out of the way of others, but when a country tries to become the world's police... without consideration for diversity in moral and culture...
Also, great work insulting a portion of the US population, what exciting statements should I expect from you next? (Republican here, btw)
*Chuckles*
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If people rely on drugs, it's simply a demand that anyone can take advantage of. Supply and demand, anyone understands that.
Paying for protection is pretty much the same as paying for taxes in more "civilized" society.
Also, it's not like everywhere in the world is like the society overran by drug-related issues. Which again, emphasize that small communities have these kind of traits, and they exist and remain for a reason.
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Great writing OP. But it's not responsible altruistic anarchy, which is what we should aspire to.
Excellent to see Cmdr Fang standing up for Liberals, which is the same as Democrats up here in Canada
(I am a liberal voter)
Excellent to see Cmdr Fang standing up for Liberals, which is the same as Democrats up here in Canada
(I am a liberal voter)
Honestly, the founding documents of the main country the Federation is modeled on probably weren't the best choice to rant against the Federation while attempting to polish the image of a Pirate Warlord. I mean really, you expect us to believe that Jack Sparrow there is going to out-Federation the Federation?
If you wanted to try to plaster some veneer of nobility over his criminal empire, some pretense of anarchist idealism, perhaps it would have been better to base your manifesto on something like A World With No Boundaries.
[video=youtube_share;GHU25ffINVg]https://youtu.be/GHU25ffINVg?t=7m43s[/video]
Or if you wanted to be a more stereotypical internet anarchist, V for Vendetta.
If you wanted to try to plaster some veneer of nobility over his criminal empire, some pretense of anarchist idealism, perhaps it would have been better to base your manifesto on something like A World With No Boundaries.
[video=youtube_share;GHU25ffINVg]https://youtu.be/GHU25ffINVg?t=7m43s[/video]
Or if you wanted to be a more stereotypical internet anarchist, V for Vendetta.
It seems that you are assuming that because I entertain a concept, that I practice it.
And if that is the case, then you might want to open your mind slightly.
Watch that slippery slope there, good sir.
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Hmm, though perhaps the speech they give you when you have Mercenary alignment would have been better.
"We will carry out the new creation of destruction through the power of righteousness.
Territories, peoples, authorities, all will be liberated.
This is the new state, "A World With No Boundaries", we'll create.
Neither nations nor nationalities have meaning: we will erase these unnecessary borders.
The world with no boundaries will pen a new story. The world will change."
But let's be honest, even if you try to polish him up with that kind of idealism, at the end of the day Delaine is still a pirate king and drug lord.
"We will carry out the new creation of destruction through the power of righteousness.
Territories, peoples, authorities, all will be liberated.
This is the new state, "A World With No Boundaries", we'll create.
Neither nations nor nationalities have meaning: we will erase these unnecessary borders.
The world with no boundaries will pen a new story. The world will change."
But let's be honest, even if you try to polish him up with that kind of idealism, at the end of the day Delaine is still a pirate king and drug lord.
But let's be honest, even if you try to polish him up with that kind of idealism, at the end of the day Delaine is still a pirate king and drug lord.
I think it's pretty practical, in the sense of securing a small community that has a certain culture looked down upon by the mainstream morals. At the end of the day, the negative connotation that goes with being a pirate and drug lord need to be recognized as merely another culture/life style. As long as it contains itself and doesn't try to take over the world, it should be left alone.
If anything the insistence of mainstream morality being righteous and should be imposed upon everyone as standards without any consideration or rationality is, if anything, something that should carry a negative connotation.
People can express their dislike of certain culture, but to start branding culture of one's dislike to be "immoral" and an absolute "wrongness," is merely a sad repeat of human history filled with forced oppression.
"That is an enemy, we must defeat it."
"They're dangerous, they're our enemy, they must not dwell in the same world as us!"
"In the name of justice and freedom, we shall obliterate all of our enemies!"
At the end of the day, nothing remains but a broken record stuck on repeat.