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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2012.07.03 10:00:00 -
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As Cardinal Graelyn has pointed out, corporal punishment is often an appropriate punishment for misdemeanours, even if the offender is an heir to the Imperial throne.
Furthermore, a sliding scale based upon relative societal positions is in operation - a slave who commits a crime where the victim is a commoner can expect a more severe punishment than a commoner who commits the same crime.
Foreigners sometimes find this difficult to understand but the system works. Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1015
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Posted - 2012.07.04 09:49:00 -
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Ruby Amatucci wrote:Wow. You Empire people are really, really, really strange sometimes, do you know that?
Okay, I have the next question!
If a naughty little drone malfunctions in the Amarrian Empire, do you start kicking the drone and hope that will make the problem go away, or do you instead kick the person who put the drone together?
Yes, I know it's really the same question, but the image is so funny, I just have to ask.
Do you make cartoons of this, by the way?
If the drone has a serious malfunction, it would probably be melted down for scrap.
If the malfunction is a minor one, it would be reprogrammed.
In the case of a slave, how does one reprogram a recalcitrant one? One of the methods is corporal punishment. Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1017
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Posted - 2012.07.05 14:58:00 -
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Ston Momaki wrote:Your arguments have been sufficiently addressed, so I'll avoid another long post.
Let me just pick out one phrase from your wall of text and I leave it at that. This phrase needs no attention from me, because it perfectly illustrates the kind of word play a slave holding society uses to continue the practice.
"It is quite possible that someone is held as a slave by law, while not being a slave" (Mithra)
I'm not sure what your point is. It's not impossible that a holder would want to release a slave as a reward for their efforts, but still retain legal ownership of them while they're getting used to their new life.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1017
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Posted - 2012.07.05 20:38:00 -
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Ava Starfire wrote:Hmm.
Perhaps there is some merit in the bloodthirsty attitudes of my brothers and sisters. As days go by, it appears that there is less and less within the Empire worth dealing with as civilized people, and more and more which simply should be burned to fine ash.
And that is the difference between us.
Where we seek to improve the lot of the lesser races, you merely seek to destroy that which is better than you. Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1019
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Posted - 2012.07.06 10:35:00 -
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Dilaro thagriin wrote:Rodj Blake wrote:Ava Starfire wrote:Hmm.
Perhaps there is some merit in the bloodthirsty attitudes of my brothers and sisters. As days go by, it appears that there is less and less within the Empire worth dealing with as civilized people, and more and more which simply should be burned to fine ash. And that is the difference between us. Where we seek to improve the lot of the lesser races, you merely seek to destroy that which is better than you. In this case Blake, 'better' is entirely subjective. Personally i cannot see how a culture and civilisation (and i use those terms very loosely) that institutionally infects those it claims to be saving, with a toxin they had no cure for, can be seen by any to be better. It is barbarism of the worst kind.
If you want to know what barbarism truly is, take a look at the Minmatars exiled, mutilated or killed by their own kind because of they drew the short straw in a pagan lottery.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
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