Intergalactic Summit

Miss Shahni, I really have no clue what you were trying to say for most of your post so I'm only going to address the part that made sense to me.



Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're bothered by the fact that some individuals are upset with the way other individuals are doing business. If this is true, I have a hard time imagining how to put up with everything else that goes on in this world. This is the Summit, and if people don't want their dirty laundry aired or prefer not to read about others dirty laundry then they can simply not take part and ignore it. When someone does something controversial, there's going to be some who do not approve. It doesn't mean any one side is right or wrong, it's just the way it works when you address topics that people have strong feelings about.

To PYRE, 'not giving a frakk' about anybody's opinion but your kin and countrymen, I caution you. That kind of thinking is dangerous and can often sew a hellish landscape for a future. At what point do you start to care what others think?

A wise man once said, “Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.” What choices are available and which is the lesser evil? You've traded one human for another and I wonder if this was wisdom. I'm no moral judge, just a man asking questions; some more rhetorical than others. I'm speaking not to prove something, as some seem to think, but rather to find better answers.

Even assuming that the individuals exchanged with PYRE are 100% healthy and free of nano-bots and other controlling mechanisms (including non-invasive brainwashing), there are still some questions, like why? Why are they interested and what are their reasons? More importantly though, why are you doing it? I understand these are your kin and you care for them. Despite many Caldari being tube-born, there is still a great bond between those who grow up and work together and this is true everywhere outside of the State as well. To spare those you love unspeakable torture and servitude to Nation, you will trade them for a stranger's loved ones. Ignore the moral dilemma there for now and consider instead your public image. The picture this story paints your corporation in isn't good, and though you "don't give a frakk", the image of patriotic Caldari is very important because when someone says "Why are we fighting them?" they can simply point at a metaphorical image of a Caldari patriot, exchanging their loved ones with Sansha Nation. Good for business if you want to be a merc the rest of your life, I suppose.

So you spare a few thousand Caldari a life in Nation, in exchange for sending a few thousand others in their place. At least it was the enemy. And while I do believe the phrase "better them than me" is one that explains our species' survival, we tread a dark path when we start to use that as our reasoning to do uncomfortable acts. Sometimes, there is another way.

-Eran

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Math.

"Don't call us terrorists, even though we work for the same terrorist organisation that's currently launching daily invasions of every area of civilized space, or we might act more like terrorists!"

Real compelling argument there.

We're at war.

Pounding your fists doesn't seem to be working, how about looking for an alternative?

Despite the amount of walls of text thrown into this thread, talking hasn't crossed anybody's mind.

~Hikari

We're at war because the Empire's couldn't let Kuvakei have his corner of the cluster and tried to curb stomp him.

It. Did. Not. Work.

It astounds me how Big4 supporters love to ignore the facts.

~Hikari

I will say this in Nation's defense: they have more than enough experience to be extremely credible authorities on getting broken.

You genuinely seem upset. Have you had your scheduled mental examination?

You're assuming that there's much more to say.

I've never seen any sign that Scherezad is pro-Nation. What she is, is uniquely sympathetic to those who have had their grey matter messed with.



I'm surprised there's any dissension on this matter.


I think you need to look into State law. There really is no hard difference between breaches of corporate law and civil law - these people were tried for offenses by a tribunal that could, equally, have sentenced them to incarceration or a number of other corrective measures. In this case, the conspiracy to commit these anti-social offenses and the nature of the offences themselves rendered the employees irredeemable in the eyes of the CERB and their employment was terminated. Losing your job means losing your citizenship, in the State, and the loss of citizenship plus their conviction for crimes of that nature, rendered these people, likely, part of a permanent criminal underclass. A foreign corporation offered them employment, they accepted and we shipped them to that corporation's homebase.

Those are the questions I'm competent to answer, questions of the nature you are asking are really a matter for corporate leadership, amongst whose august number I am NOT.


You are inferring who that batch of disassociated went to. You must understand that once they left our employ we really have little interest in them, legally. What I can say, personally, is that I have never profited from any deal with TS-F - save for having had competent wingman in a couple of patrols.