Pretty much your entire Elf supremacist stance, is on big example of textbook double standards. Your mage supremacist stance, comes in close second. Oh wait, thats right, when you talk about it, it is equal rights for mages and elves. But lets be honest, thats not really what you try and advocate...Plaintiff wrote...
Why don't you elaborate on these, I could use a good laugh.EmperorSahlertz wrote...
Hypocrisy means a lot of things. Double standards are an aspect of it. And you have shown time and again, that you have many double standards.Plaintiff wrote...
I never said it was okay. I said it can't be known, and that the fact of it being stolen previously doesn't make the humans any less wrong.Darth Brotarian wrote...
Your saying it's okay for elves to steal something, but not okay form humans to steal something.
Sounds like average double standard hypocracy to me.
So in addition to not knowing what 'hypocrisy' means, plenty of people in this thread apparently can't read.
No. If we were living in anarchy, then yes. However, we do not. Ignoring the fact that manslaughter and murder cannot be compared to conquest of territory, you seem of the sort who is incapable of comprehending that might, does not necessarily mean physical, so it seems pointless to try and explain the finer points of "might makes right" to you.. However, since I am a sucker for punishment, I might aswell try...Plaintiff wrote...
So if I barge into your home, kill your family and pets, and cast you out into the street, it's safe to assume you'll concede to my right of conquest, and accept that you deserve to be homeless because you were 'weak', yes?And wether or not the Elves "stole" Thedas from anyone is inconsequential, just like it was when the humans "stole" Thedas from the Elves.
A wolfpack doesn't "steal" hunting territory from another wolfpack. It takes it. The Elves were too weak to defend themselves when Arlathan fell, and they were too weak to defend themselves when the Dales fell. All their claims to their lands evaporated with such spectacular displays of weakness. If you do not have the power to hold on to what is yours, it is no longer yours. The Elves lost. They really need to get over it.
Might makes right, means that the most powerful are the one who sets the rules. That does not necessarily means physically powerful. It can also means economically, politically or in the case of nations militarily (or any combinations thereof, along with a slew of other forms).
Now in the case of your so well-thought out and eloquent example of you murdering my family and pets, and "conquering" my home. Yes. I would have to concede that I had been the weaker party of the two of us. I would have been too weak to defend my family, and as a result I would have lost everything. However, since the nation I live in is at least partially mightier than the otherwise all-mighty you, it would not be a conflcit contained between the two of us. You would have broken the law in the nation, and they would see fit to punish you for it. So in the end, while you had proven stronger than me, in my failure to defend my family, you would end up the weaker, becasue my "ally", the nation, would reinforce me. If you had been capable of fighting the power of the nation, then you would be at the top of the power pyramid in this case, and while many would probably find your actions morally repulsive, your undeniable power, would be what allowed you to do as you please.
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