Miss Jenneth…I ll begin from saying on a personal note that I dont encompass any plan that will lead to more violence and bloodshed. That makes me rather a minority amongst my kin but nonetheless I am not here to also judge anybody else’s point of view on how progress is to be made. Everyone has their own path. Thus, I make clear that everything said here it is of my own and I dont speak on behalf of anyone else.
You see normally I dont partake into the forums for multiple reasons. Mainly due to how as a design they dont promote meaningful debate but grandstanding and pointless arguing. But your known ignorance(and I honestly dont mean to insult here) sometimes crosses a limit that I think you don’t understand it yourself because in the end…its not your fault.
The Republic(regardless of its setup i.e tribal versus parliamentary) , Miss Jenneth, is a construct that, despite how it is not perfect by any mean, it is a positive step forward. A step towards a political union that has never instilled predatory and expansionist sentiments towards any other. The only violent response the Republic ever has is against those who oppressed us for hundreds of years. And yet for all the ridicule, destruction and separation we have been undergone, the Republic is a construct where it tries to rise up and become something far more improved.
The greatest victory that us Matari have achieved is our resistance to becoming an offspring of the violence that we have endured. In technical terms we should have been a rogue nation rather than anything else if you account political science. Yet we try Miss Jenneth.
Do you know when the Empire last tried? Under Heideran VII where the Empire was a signatory at treaties that forbid it to acquire slaves from other nations other than criminals and POWs. At which at that time, in an Amarr fashion the vitoc also came in use. And the reason why I dont cite Empress Jamyl, is because emancipation doesn’t mean freedom, although I will give her the benefit of the doubt had she managed to elude the fatal ending she had.
The way Kahah was handled wasn’t a surprise. It was a let down. Even the liberal bloc(from which Empress Catiz hails from) acted in the only way that the Empire seems to know.
I am not an anti-Amarr Miss Jenneth, dont be mistaken. I am certain there are some political forces(that none is present in capsuleer circles from what I have seen) that wish to see a fully reformed Empire and that they are significantly the minority. I have worked in the Empire through my work and will continue to do so. For trying to be a force of progress isn’t something easy nor short length in its undertaking. But not being anti-Amarr doesn’t mean I can’t be equally critical as I am towards my own.
Everyone in the cluster agrees that the Empire that is, was not what it could be. For a Minmatar Miss Jenneth understands something that it seems to elude an Imperial, maybe aside Heideran VII himself.
Something that was said by a famous philosopher
‘Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly’.
And thus instead of us lifting our arms and shrugging pointing at the divines, spirits, shamans, and the Empresses/Emperors for absolution of effort and responsibility what you label as:
For a Matari changes to:
People who no matter what has happened to them, no matter what the Voluval will say, the Matari will always try to act in excellence. For we owe it to uphold the memory and legacy for all those who came before us. For all those who died so we can have a Republic. A homeworld, healthcare, education, freedom of speech, rights, an assembly. We are the most populous faction in the star cluster. Not everyone and not everything will go along as positively as we would want to. Not everyone will agree and disputes shall be had.
But dont mock this forum by saying that the Empire had no choice. You the bride of a Holder. If we have achieved as a fragmented nation not to succumb to mindless violence then we have far surpassed your version of how to build a nation. And in that manner we have created something that we have to uphold. Something that by default shadows even the greatest of the Imperial undertakings throughout the long history of the Empire. Something that you will never understand the weight that rests upon each and everyone of us Matari.