I would say the gist of my speech had little to do with nobility and everything to do with building upon the legitimate grievances of the audience it was delivered to. I have very little concern with nobility, myself.
āOh you poor poor neglected citizens of the State! Look at how your leaders mistreat you! Look at how they have diverged from the visions of our ancestors! You know who didnāt act so abhorrently as to betray the ideals of our people though? These two wonderful, noble, prescient men, Laitanen and Kosakami, who have founded a glorious new domain in the frontier of Venal, where your brothers and sisters live as the ancestors intended! Untainted by the corruption of corporate greed! Join up now!ā
Your deceit is on par with that of a child caught misbehaving by its guardians, the speech in the OP is a horrendously structured, predatory piece of propaganda meant to prey on the transiently discontent, a recruitment drive for more people for you to toss in the meat grinder for your own profit.
No need to make claims of what does and doesnāt concern you, pirate, itās clear for all to see what really concerns you, the point is that you look absolutely ridiculous trying to slither your way out of admitting what your true goal was with this post. Itās just a sad sight to behold.
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No deceit on my part. I gave people an alternative option to the lives they lead. In the end, I just open the door, itās up to others to choose of their own accord whether to step through that door.
Well, two of my goals with my post was public viewership and personal notoriety ā objectives I feel have been accomplished.
An alternative presented falsely as utopic in comparison.
Oh, you have gained notoriety alright, though I am guessing not the kind that you expected or desired.
Notoriety is all the same to me, so long as it builds my personal brand so that my fans buy my merch.
Re-reading what i wrote i can see the gap in the steps of the reasoning.
While the day to day life of people on the front lines may give room to urges and grudges, the entity Caldari State abides by international law/codes regarding prisioners and their treatment, even in asymmetrical warfare.
Therefore, unless there are major violations of those laws/codes, or convenience/lack of oversight from the entities that agreed to the laws/codes, it will probably be unlikely that the Caldari State is commiting that much of the reported atrocities (emphasis on that much. Again, there will be individuals and groups within the State that will ignore those laws/codes)
Therefore,
is probably not exactly the best comparison, for the Caldari State as a law abiding entity treat (or at least are expected to treat) their prisioners in a certain not so cruel way.
So the question
to actually become a fair comparison, would be to consider joininng said law/codes, or at least parts of it, that of course will be difficult to happen because Guristas Pirates are outlaws, so they will probably not care about the law/codes that do give beds and meals for prisioners.
Tl;DR - Caldari State is bound by laws/codes that the Guristas are not, so to actually be tit for tat, the Guristas would have to be something they are not, a law/code abiding entity.
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The thing is, a Guristas captured in the borders of the State has no legal rights ā either as regards the international laws of the uniform code of justice of the SAF or corporate laws of which a Guristas is not a citizen. As such, in most cases Guristas would be killed or executed outright as an unlawful combatant.
Due to this, SAF personnel captured by Guristas are treated in much the same manner.
The tit for tat is in the killing, not the law.
Incorrect.
Majority of guristas held State citizenship in the past and thus are trialled for treason. If guristas are captured alive outside of combat situation, they brought to the tribunal and sentenced according to law of Caldari State. Of course, for treason or piracy they will be executed anyway if the court will find them guilty.
As for Guristas who donāt have State records, they are treated as unidentified criminals. They cannot be trialed for treason, but they can be trialed for piracy and/or other crimes they have committed, and will be executed or imprisoned by the decision of the tribunal.
Everyone who enters State space will be subjected to laws of Caldari State with exception to Capsuleers. Killing and executing outright is allowed only against them or members of hostile factions (Sansha Nation, Triglavian Collective, Gallente Federation and Minmatar Republic). In that regard Guristas Pirates are treated as organized criminal group, not a hostile faction.
Captives by Guristas are considered hostages, not prisoners. And captured guristas are considered as criminals, not PoWs, thus exchange of prisoners is impossible. We do not tend to release sentenced criminals in any case, and those who dare to capture our personnel as hostages will be treated as terrorists, instead of negotiations we will prefer sending in assault squads to release our people from captivity.
If the State wants to complicate a state of affairs that is simply, āThey kill us, so we kill themā with legal procedure and bureaucracy thatās really their concern.
Personally, if Iām going to kill someone Iām just going to kill them and not waste their and my time doing so.
Psychopath.
Yes, itās most likely I am.
Not only the Caldari State, every major group that cares about āmoralityā or ācivilizationā, be it a root value, face value or merely convenience does it.
People really enjoy rituals to do stuff, even in killing. (Burocracy, kill marks, corpse collecting, killboard, are some of the rituals involved in the Capsuleer life regarding life and death)
And that is one of the differences between individuals and institutions. Even the Guristas have internal codes to regualate themselves and their interactions with others. Who would hire people that doesnāt respect the contracts they sign?
Individuals can afford to do things in a A-B manner, institutions are bound by rules to regulate the different individuals, and even the leanest ones will have at least one more step (A-B-C) to do things.
Enjoy your capsuleer status thet gives you the privilige and the power to do a lot of stuff unchecked.
There is a lot of gratification in removing something, or someone, from existence indeed, in a straightforward, slow, or ritualistic way.
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If I was younger, probably. There was a joy and pleasure to killing once. These days itās just part of the landscape for me ā another procedure and process to work through. Death and killing I find is wholly unremarkable.
Iāve never not enjoyed being a capsuleer.
Just in case it went over your head (as your newfound notoriety would suggest) what I am refering to is that you are an absolute joke. An absolute parody of humanity and post-humanity alike, floundering and stumbling through your life with all the grace of a mindflood addict, making an complete fool of yourself as you pantomime caricatures of pirates and jaded capsuleers alike.
Do you think apathy is remarkable, pirate? Do you think a disregard for any social convention in your pursuit of profit makes you look cool and edgy?
You are pathetic- all I can hope for is that this is the result of some form of most disgraceful lunacy, because I cannot imagine a sober person genuinely acting the way you do.
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My disregard for social convention is due to an essentialist philosophical position: I am adept at killing, so I am a killer. Death is the purpose of my life, and violence is my goal as a capsuleer. Knowing this in myself, a regard for social convention would be a personal affectation, not being cool or edgy.
Lmao, perhaps your own death if your public record is anything to go by.
Are you sure this isnāt a bit? Delusions of infamy and grandeur aside, I cannot imagine someone being this much of a living caricature.
Seek help please, I am going to stop engaging with this thread for the time being, donāt want to come off as mean for picking on the disadvantaged.
If you want to believe I am a neophyte to the capsuleer life, by all means, you are free to do so. The only one at a disadvantage would be you.
Ms. Malitia? Just to mention-- occasionally someone very old (meaning, in egger terms, like, a decade or so) resurfaces with a new name and sometimes a new face. If someone claims to be such a person you might actually be kinda badly-served by being overly skeptical.
For example, you might have noticed me addressing this person as āVeik.ā Itās short for Veikitamo Gesakaarin, which is the name she used to go by. Her present name is (barely) an anagram of the given name previously used by her ā¦ for lack of absolute confidence regarding their relationship Iām going to say partner who is presently going around using another (barely) anagram of Veikās old name. She founded PY-RE, which is a name you might or might not know depending on how long youāve been around yourself.
And yeah, sheās always been edgy as a box of finely-shredded razor blades.
You shouldnāt take anything Iām saying as a reason to trust her, just, in this case sheās not lying.
On which note ā¦
Point for point, that āphilosophical positionā describes me as well, Veik, but thereās a difference between us that it should by now be obvious goes way beyond personal affectation-- as you know, so I suspect a little that you might be indulging your old practice of trolling me.
The real source for your lack of regard seems likely to be this:
I agree.
Iām not, though. And it doesnāt seem to me like your tendencies that way help anyone much-- including you.
As, again, I think you know by now.
If that is your Path of Righteousness, may you walk it in plenitude.
Just because two things share similarities, does not make them one and the same, Aria. Differences are just as defining as shared traits ā just because we might share a point of philosophy on our nature, does not mean we share a similar context of that nature. My disregard for social convention stems from an old betrayal when I was disabused of their importance to me. The result was disillusionment and a wariness of the vulnerability that comes with giving a damn. That is not to say I have that which I find important, I am just cognizant that the very things I care about can also be used to hurt me ā that is why I ensure to keep them well hidden through personal obfuscation and deflection.
I do not wear my heart on my sleeve by necessity and design.
There is no cure for my neuro-divergence, Aria ā it can only be managed. I do not perceive and experience the universe the same as you or as most of humanity do. I can intellectualize or abstract certain aspects of the human experience but my fundamental understanding remains distinct from others.
My path is not righteous ā far from it. In my view, self-righteousness and the ability to justify or rationalize the worst violence and atrocity in service to a cause is much worse than that which I inflict. My vengeance and the death I inflict is not righteous, far from it, it is purely selfish. It also spares me the need to argue why the cause to which I kill is more justified than the cause to which others kill. In order that I can tell myself the adrenaline and dopamine hit from inflicted violence was for some higher or greater purpose, that the dead deserved it, they were the enemy.