Intergalactic Summit

You say you have personal slaves.
You treat slaves as property. Whether you think that negates their humanity is irrelevant, People are not property.

That makes you a holder.
Whether or not you believe that makes you a holder is irrelevant. You treat slaves as property.

You may notice the loop within those words. There is a simple method of breaking it. Release your slaves back into their own cultures and stop meddling in the affairs of those who are not of your empire.

As for the pain of my childhood, Due to the actions of your people, I live with that every day. There is not one waking moment I am not reminded that almost a quarter of the matari people still remain enslaved to your society, still suffer the indignities and horrors I suffered at Amarrian hands.

This is the last time you will interrupt my meditation. I have had enough of this.
Perhaps one day soon you will hear the footfalls of Cobalt Omega on your doorstep.
This tired old man will not be among them.

-Dilaro

You seem to know so much about me. You know how I treat my Slaves, you know I am a Holder, despite my assurances that myself, my family and the Kingdom are convinced I'm a Commoner. Did you know that I have no Matari slaves among my Household? One ethnic Caldari, one ethnic Gallente and two Ealur. Does this affect your opinion? It shouldn't, really, but I suppose it might.

That you endlessly repeat the same empty words is really only of consequence to me because I feel it is wasted breath that could be used to forge something worthwhile - but you are not interested in that. I shall treat you as you treat me and repeat the salient facts I am trying to make known amongst your people, once more, in the hope that someone interested will hear it.

The keeping of Slaves is fundamental to the Amarrian Faith. For so long as it continues to be so, you will not stop it. Appeals to beliefs that your people and mine do not share will not stop it. If insults and threats could stop it, the Republic would have already done so long ago.

The TAKING of Slaves from outside the Kingdom is something that can be stopped and, for the most part, already has. The vast majority of Slaves in the Kingdom are the descendants of Slaves with a very small minority being recently indentured criminals. A little cooperation between the Republic and the Kingdom could probably help make illegal Slave Trading a lot harder and less lucrative for a fraction of the effort expended on the proxy wars started by your illegal attacks.

And it all comes down to the Faith. You should know what you're asking for. You're not asking us to forgo luxury or an economic aid. You're not asking us to give up wealth or power. We don't keep Slaves because it makes us feel good about ourselves. It is a duty that is given to us by our God. You are telling us that in order to merely be hated by you for past crimes and incompatibilities, we must fail our God in the only task he has given us.

In other words, you're asking for our Souls. Do you think I fear that less than the nebulous threat of your bully boys?

I actually want to step in and second this recommendation. This should be a requirement for any capsuleer. Not optional, but an actual requirement for your licensing.

Why CONCORD does not scan for psychosis or mental imbalance before handing out licenses to megaton death machines is absolutely, and completely beyond me.

I would be okay with a massively smaller number of capsuleers. I think we should probably assign these same psychologists to whomever decided it was a good idea to give We Psychopaths the megaton death machine licenses.

True.
Amusing to hear that from one of your kind, though.

Every now and then it takes a frothing madman to remind me that there are worse things than a Cold War by proxy.

My cousin was hit by lightning once and survived. He now believes that God has blessed him and proves this by climbing naked to the top of the roof during thunder showers and reading various Scriptures.

I regard him as mentally imbalanced, and if you did the same, I'd probably tell you that you were imbalanced.

That my cousin does something insane doesn't mean that you doing the same thing makes you sane.

The difference, of course, is that my cousin is only a danger to himself while you're cheerfully talking about murder on a planetary scale.

Perhaps I was unclear. There was a female Caldari nationalist going by the moniker "Galaxy Pig" posting on Galnet calling for a militia of Caldari capsuleers to assemble attack the "Gallente problem at the source" starting with industrial academies and working their way out. This kind of naked aggression cannot be ignored, Amaki-haani. Like most Gallente, I am slow to anger, but I have my limits and they have been reached.

I belive the Caldari Nationalist in question was advocating attacking the academy systems for the training of Capsuleers. By this stage the pilots will already have had their first clone prepared and will, most likely, be flying Frigate class ships.

The loss of Gallente life would have been, give or take, zero.