Off-Topic Thread vol. 2

Now that’s just plain silly. I’m sure even the Empire knows the saying ‘a chain is only as strong as its weakest link’. The more people you introduce to the process, the more human beings you have involved, the more the chance of corruption increases. After all, one corrupt actor whom others trust can poison the work output of the whole group, just by introducing a few small errors here and there. And that’s without getting into ‘the work’ being a body of text as incomprehensibly large as the Amarr Scriptures.

Say what you like about how I’m an unbeliever and an outsider, most of the Amarr here know that one thing I do almost compulsively is ask questions about their faith, and the Scriptures that form its foundation. Some may even recall a discussion where I was told, by a number of the more learned Amarr, that the complete body of Scripture is so vast, nobody can know it all. Nobody has time to read it all. It would take longer than the centuries-long lifetime of an Amarr Holder.

And if nobody can know it all, then nobody can fact check every single claim and assertion being quietly made in an off-hand manner as a terribly minor, insignificant really, point during a discussion. And then that minor, insignificant point enters into what people are aware of, and can be reminded about. And it’s accepted as ‘yes, I recall that being discussed’, and soon other things are being considered on the basis of that formerly-insignificant point. And it snowballs from there.

The larger the group, the larger the work, the more potential there is for corruption. And the only prevention for it is constant, individual vigilance on the part of everyone impacted by it.

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