Re: Not so Chaotic Fonrit

From: Mark <markmohrfield_at_...>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:43:01 -0000

> >
>
> I won't deny there are some cynical and/or fanatical rulers in Fonrit.
>
> A major constraint against widespread cynicism, I feel, is the knowledge
> that the use of unrestrained insights have had memorably bad
> consequences (like say the gloranthan equivalent of Godzilla or Cthulhu
> demolishing large portions of the city). While a ruler could be cynical
> and/or in the pursuit of power, they have to be covert in doing so. If
> news about their philosophy broke, the other rulers would gang up on
> them to put them down (and then fight each other over the spoils).
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>

I'm afraid that I still see this as providing too many opportunities for humanity's darker nature to emerge, regardless of whether or not the insights are being used.

                                           Mark Mohrfield


           

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