007 // blink and you'll miss a revolution

[serpentis]

Who: Dorian!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: On the Three Twins
When: 5/26, night

Well, now that we've all gotten our fill of rampant debauchery, I thought I might pose a little question to you, Fleet. A more...somber question.

[Dorian looks considering for a moment, and when he speaks, he talks with his hands as much as his mouth. It seems like a subject he's certainly into, that's for sure.]

What would you do if, for example, you disagreed with the politics of your home? What measures would you go to? At what cost would you ensure that things were righted, were changed for the better?

[He raises a brow.]

Would you kill for it? Would you bring about chaos and disarray because the end would justify those means, as it were? How many deaths can be justified by a revolutionary change? 10? 100? Thousands? If it were for the greater good, how many lives could you sacrifice?

[He brings the hand back to his chin, thinking.]

Color me curious. What are your politics there?

Comments

[slukhtis]

Can't justify death. Better to kill all the old rulers though, letting them live is idiotic. Gives them a chance to revolt, take over again, destroy your changes. Cut down the old so the new can flourish.

[ Flippant shrug. ]

Personally don't care much, political assholes leave me alone. If I'm paid enough I might start caring.

[serpentis]

Well, if you cut off the serpent's head, two grow back in its place, do they not? If the common folk are to revolt, how would they be guided?

[He looks interested, though. And he doesn't entirely disagree.]

[slukhtis]

Better be thorough then; kill them, their supporters, their families. Don't leave a head to come back. [ Brutal but effective, he thinks. ] Hmm, can't strike them down as well. It'd be pouring oil on a fire. Assurances maybe, claim the deaths to be justice for all they suffered.

[serpentis]

Hmm, I see. Even the families? How deep would you go- how old would they have to be, or would you simply eliminate the line altogether as the risk is higher than the benefit of mercy?

[slukhtis]

Sons will rise where their fathers fall, take up the mantle, seen it before. Wiping out the line would be safer, not kinder but safer. Kinder option might be to keep any young children as wards, but it runs a risk.

[serpentis]

[Dorian brings a hand to his chin, nodding.]

Quite in the spirit of Tevinter, that. Wipe out what of the blood line you can, save for what can be shaped and molded.

[slukhtis]

The way of everyone from what I've seen. Most don't go the kind option, too much hassle I guess.

What would you do?

[serpentis]

I'm not entirely certain, yet. I consider the Magisterium by and large to be like an infected limb. The best way is to cut it off and start over, though I'm not entirely certain how to prevent anarchy in its place.