On 18Jun2020 1721, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> I think what no one really has stated is that, despite whatever claims
> of 'legality' (which we're are currently hearing a lot of in RL)
> Dulinor was not only a traitor but also a cold-blooded murderer.
Yes, and? At least one of the 'right of assassination' Emperors had
their actions retroactively approved by the Moot. The thing is, Dulinor
never stuck around to get the Moot's approval, not even approval at
gunpoint. Then the Moot, by not resisting Lucan's order dissolving it,
abdicated it's responsibility to approve a claim to the throne,
effectively dissolving the Imperium and making it a free-for-all.

Yes, it's contrived, etc., but look out the window. 2020's busy carving
out whole new lows for how much sense something has to make to be
'realistic' or 'reasonable'. Not there aren't plenty of other historical
examples of utter disasters happening because a whole pile of people all
decided to make stupid decisions for reason fo short-term self-interest,
ego, and general stupidity (the events leading to WWI, for example).

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>