cthia wrote:I agree with you there. McCartney is the one who thinks they may have a legal leg to stand on as a loophole in the Constitution—de facto state of war, endangering the lives of Solarian citizens in their complicity with the enemy, malfeasance, and many more Solarian yatta yatta yattas.
But I think all of them feel Beowulf was morally treasonous to the implied relationship between people.*
"Regardless of what the legal letter of the law may say, you know what you did was wrong, as per our unspoken private relationship, you bitch!"
I (League) may lose the case in court because we failed to get certain agreements written on paper. But you know what you did! And you know the implications of the mechanics of the relationship and what was unspoken between us that we morally agreed on. And I'm gonna getcha. Look out girl, I'm gonna getcha!
They don't condone Tsang's actions, no. But that doesn't change the fact that Tsang wouldn't have had to make a stupid decision had it not been for Beowulf. And that Tsang was also looking at the bigger picture, the lives of Solarian citizens and not those of neobarbs. (Bracketing for a moment what we as readers actually knew was waiting on the other side of the junction.)
*The kind of indiscretion that evokes blind rage and 20M crimes of passion.
Evoking a reader's literary license to read between the lines of the 20M who are going to die on Beowulf, phillies.Armed Neo-Bob wrote:I think the only one of them portrayed as truly stupid enough to embrace the "treason" argument would have been McCartney; but in their reality NONE of them expected the actions Tsang took at Beowulf. What had been a political maneuver of manipulating.
ldwechsler wrote:The discussion borders on the ridiculous. When in the course of human events, etc...
The League has been a corrupt disaster for a long time. The corruption was open, the disaster not as obvious.
When you discuss Beowulf's obligations, you dismiss its rights.
For a better analogy, why not a German during World War II who is ordered to kill a lot of helpless people. What should he do?
According to cthia, he should simply do it. That puts him, somehow, on the "side of the angels."
Refusal to do that is bad.
So Gandhi, who refused to pay accept British rule in India is the bad guy. And Martin Luther King who evil for opposing the state of Alabama. But Adolph Eichmann was a real good guy.
Remember the song played by the British at Yorktown? "The world turned upside down?"
I'm not to blame for the ridiculous actions and thinking of a ridiculous regime! What do you expect to come from ridiculousness? Everything the League did was ridiculous. Not responding to the diplomatic note was not only really ridiculous but disrespectful to boot. At what point did you actually expect the ridonculously ridiculous to change?
There you go with that word "rights" again. As if a ridiculous regime who has never respected their own Constitution is suddenly going to consult with a moral compass to gauge the direction of any of Beowulf's constitutional rights.
In the Mandarins' eyes per Beowulf's transgressions, Beowulf only has a right to die. Hence, the 20M dead placed on Exhibit B — 'B' for, Beowulf!