Originally Posted by Apollinaris
Neither of you has a signature image larger than what the forum rules state you can have, so I wonder why anyone has an issue with them.
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Praetoian Loyalists! Report for Duty!
The Resistance shall win out! Loyalists you day is coming sooner than you think!
Viva La Resistance!
and when we awaken every morning we must have EVIL syrup on our EVIL pancakes
Just ask Frostfire if life is that simple, after he gets bailed out for the 15th time today...
There is no such thing as an "innocent bystander"
You can't even save most of the unnamed citizens being accosted on the streets of Paragon City!
Don't even bother to come to New Praetoria! We don't NEED saving!
Just beat up Marauder if he goes to YOUR dimension
There is no such thing as an "innocent bystander"
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Freedom IS free, you don't have to pay anything. Other people have to pay in order to try to TAKE your freedom. They lose their souls, what makes them decent people. But no one can truly take your freedom. All they can do is to try to convince you to give up your freedom. If you don't give it to them, they will never be able to take it.
Or in the words of Mohandas Gandhi, "They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience."
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I've already gotten over a DOZEN negs since the new forums complaining the same thing: "signature is bigger than post"... like that's some sort of crime or something.
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The two of you have short "http//img...................etc" links to your pictures, but other a (very few) folks have such long ones that it "breaks" the forums, causing a need to side-scroll.
But I sure as heck ain't gonna neg-rep them for the effects of MY choice of settings.
You keep using the word 'freedom' as if it is something we know nothing about. Let me tell what freedom means to me.
I and my family can walk the streets day or night, and not be concerned for our safety.
Our home provides us shelter from the elements, is clean, well maintained, and has every amenity we could ask for.
When we leave our home, we are not confronted with broken windows, graffiti covered walls, trash-strewn streets, and roving gangs bent on mayhem and destruction.
We are not beset with invasions, no sirens wake us in the middle of the night warning us of hoards of aliens, undead rising from the earth, or militaristic regimes seeking to overthrow our way of life.
You will have to excuse me if I do not see your 'freedom' as being something that I should accept.
Of course that's freedom, as long as you obey. Oh wait...-ph1L0t1x
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Everyone has their own perspective of freedom and like love it is a very hard thing to classify.I won't try to explain my view of freedom because it is a matter of a persons opinion and personal preference.Hence everyone's idea is going to be different.
The thing that attracts me to Cole's idea of utopia is the control,criminal activities are crushed.Imagine if you will if your guilty then you are punished,truly punished for your crime.If you murder then guess what death penalty is your punishment.None of the bleeding heart crap about the murderers rights.These days in rl no one thinks of the victim and the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Rapists and pedophiles get "slapped on the wrist" penalities,while the victim lives the rest of their life with emotion/pyschological and sometimes pyshical scars.More often than not the offenders have "problems",upbringing,poor,whatever.Like it is some kind of excuse for what they did.
The same follows through with violent offenders,murderers,repeat felons,etc.The reason crimes continue is because the punishment doesn't scare them straight.Start having public executions,and severe punishment for the crimes and I bet ppl wise up.
I won't ruffle to many feathers with organizations that protect/defend murderers,rapists and their ilk.But,I will say this when a person strung out on crack is waving a gun around and threatening to shoot police officers and the crackhead gets shot and killed.The officers are justified and shouldn't be punished because they protected themselves and the public.These organizations that sue the dept and the cops are sick.Plus how is money going to solve the deceased problems anyways?
I realize this is way too deep for the game,and that's fine but,I was recently asked why I liked the Loyalists so much.There is an attraction there that appeals to my sense of right and wrong.While I realize Cole probably takes other things way too far,I just like his justice for crime.
Like I have stated in other posts I was all about the Empire in Star Wars,the take no shizz mentality.Yes,they did take other stuff too far,but,I'm not getting into that.The galactic senate was impotent and too many ppl like our government make too many shady deals and too many ppl are getting their palms greased while the people are the ones who get hurt.Not trying to make a political statement and it is not my intent to po anyone,just my thoughts on this topic.I do realize that what I have stated doesn't fit ever case/crime it's just a generic view.Guess that's enough deep thinking for now,hehe....
So in closing Hail to the Emperor!
*thinks deeply*
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While I realize Cole probably takes other things way too far,I just like his justice for crime.
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Like I have stated in other posts I was all about the Nazi state,the take no shizz mentality.Yes,they did take other stuff too far,but,I'm not getting into that. |
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I think you'll find that the definition of crime in Praetoria covers a lot of things
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Do I actually believe in a imperial/nazi form of government hell no there is always going to be someone who is going to take the blame and suffer for it(nazi germany and the jews).Scapegoats and boogeymen are always needed to keep the sheep in line.
My attraction is to the justice system the take no shizz you do the crime your going to be hit hard for it.If it wasn't for the take no crap justice system I would probably be with the rsistance.Having a work caste system(clockwork) to take care of everything is a sign of a decandent society,no free thinking or artistic expression tends to stagnate society,hence no evolution.Yes they have great technology but at what cost?
Wait I better give up now...I think I'm making your guys arguement easier.
This is not what I wanted to get into.I am only looking at one area of the regime and that is crime and the punishments doled out..
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My attraction is to the justice system the take no shizz you do the crime your going to be hit hard for it. |
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I'm just not a big fan of image sigs, don't mind text sigs though.
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