Thank you for proving my point.
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āSlavery is, in the strictest sense of the term, any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.ā
Iām pretty sure thereās a certain argument to be put forwards that they are, in fact, enslaved.
Rise up, free the Caldari.
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Well, when you put it like thatā¦
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Wait what?
Ms. Ember ā¦ um. Very respectfully, you may have been talking to a lot of Gallente lately.
Human beings are one of the very few things in the State to which principles of property law donāt apply. You can talk about deep, indoctrinated loyalty and āwage slavery,ā but itās really not the same thing. Human beings in the State are not bought or sold; even the casteless who otherwise live outside the law and have no legal rights canāt be treated that way (and thereās not a lot youāre not allowed to do to them).
The Caldari as a people are pretty sensitive about this issue. Being here in the Empire, and seeing the genuine article in use around me ā¦ I guess, maybe Iām a little sensitive about it too. Maybe thatās why strange edge cases like poor Veik kind of make me twitch.
Anyway, as a general rule slavery is one thing the Caldari donāt do to each other. They take a lot of pride in it, so, itās something youāre sticking your thumb kind of directly in their eye if you claim they do.
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Iām going to have to give you a few lessons in how to tell when Iām being serious. You genuinely seem to struggle to interpret me. Iām not entirely certain why this is.
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???
ā¦ Youāve highlighted it and I still donāt see how I was supposed to know you were joking. Itās not like nobodyās ever said such things earnestly.
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Well, Miss Jenneth. Miss Ember isnāt talking serious because she thinks Iām an idiot and has to dumb down her words to match me in wit. She does that all the time!
Jokeās on her really. Iām not dumb, just insane.
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I believe, if you read these boards in their entirety, the joke is on all of us.
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I know! And itās hilarious!
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Or at least dumb enough to think youāre insane. None of your behavior indicates any disorders, just childishness and low wit.
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I think slavery is a very tricky topic.
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Only if youāre trying to justify it. If youāre not trying to justify it, then itās morally wrong and shouldnāt be tolerated.
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Youāre really latching on to me Miss Arrendis! Is my natural charm getting to you?
Loyalty is not slavery.
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Being a TCMC-loaded puppet gets a little arguable, though, Veik. Say hi to your āfatherā for me?
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Is that the, thereās nanites in the hydrostatic fluid, and Sanshaās Nation also use nanites. Therefore, all capsuleers are in Nation line of reasoning?
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Itās the āhe showed me your body in a box and explained to me that your personality is something he reconstructed out of his own memories, plus I guess a few things he just decided to toss inā reasoning. At the time he said youād become āunstableā and needed to be retired. I guess heās satisfied with the repairs?
(Seriously, I donāt know whether he was telling me the truth but your existence is such a hall of mirrors and smoke that I no longer expect to be able to parse truth from just another layer of lies. Iām really just at the point of putting a label on the whole nasty business and letting it stand as a warning to all: āThe Amazing Kurovassiās House of Illusions - Enter at Your Own Risk.ā)
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Iām Caldari. Given that, I would hardly consider you one to be surprised. For example, go do some digging on Otro Gariushi and youāll find some strong implications he was not your typical up and coming mundane management type but actually someone else who did some shady deals with the Gurista out in Pure Blind. It might be slander from another Megacorporation, or it might even be the truth from Otro Gariushi designed to look like slander and thus dismissed out in the open.
Such are the games to be played in the State, whether in public theatre or private scenes. Thatās the nature of corporate competition.
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The Caldari State is based on a lot of curious things. An overarching culture of mendacity doesnāt strike me as being one to an unusual degree.
Everyone has and wears masks, but yours seem to just cover additional masks-- and your āfatherā gave me reason to believe that, to a really remarkable degree, you are a lie. Meritocratically speaking, youāre top class for sheer volume of illusions.
Well done, I guess?
Only, I know about it, and others know about it, and right now if you told me Caldari space was blue Iād want to double check for myself. So, maybe not so much.
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Itās not mendacity, itās maintaining good habits if you ever have to navigate corporate politics, and even when you donāt, those habits die hard.
Because those people who get tossed in that end of the State pool donāt tend to survive long by wearing their hearts on their sleeve. Just look at Heth for a case study in being too inept by constantly telegraphing their own intentions for anyone else to plan against. In the end, he just was not cunning and ruthless enough to survive, and if a corporate leader canāt keep themselves alive how can they do the same for those they might have to lead?
Paranoia has kept me alive all these years, Iām hardly one to stop now.
Besides, thereās always those amusing moments when knowing others think they know youāre always a liar and you tell them honestly thereās a cliff in front of them and they jump off just to make sure Iām telling the truth.
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