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Making the derailment it's own thread.

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Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#1 - 2013-06-21 19:31:53 UTC
I want to address things raised in another thread
here because they don't seem to be on track with what the original thread was about.

Anslo wrote:
Considering the Nation's history of repeating misleading facts without telling the whole story of the past and why Nation was attacked, I don't see why anyone's opinion of your credibility should change for the better.

See how easy that is?


The truth of the matter is Master Kuvakei wished to create his Utopia far from Empire boarders. He knew his ways would not be accepted in Empire space and so he moved far away so as to not to be considered a threat. Setting up his own empire inside State boarders would have been considered an immediate threat and would have been retaliated against. Many other entities have done the same. Multiple Capsuleer alliances, and other groups that CONCORD labels pirates. And yet, for some reason, even though Nation set itself up far from CONCORD jurisdiction our actions were somehow an affront so grievous that all four nations banded together with genocide on their mind? Does no one else see this as wrong?

From your point of view at worst Nation kidnaps people. So do the Khanid. So did the Amarr. The empires do not band together to wage genocide on the Kingdom.

Nation controls the minds of their subjects. So do slavers inside the CONCORD signatories. No genocide there.

Every other negative thing I have heard about Nation came about after the war that began in YC 37, so the Incursions are a result of the attempted genocide. Not something that lead to the attempted genocide.

So tell me. What has Nation done pre YC 37 that hasn't been done, and been done longer and on a larger scale, by CONCORD signatories? What did we do that the religious zealots have not done a thousand times over in the name of their God yet somehow we warrant death and they warrant a diplomatic sigh?

Steffanie Saissore wrote:
Evi Polevhia wrote:
Considering the CONCORD signatories history of unprovoked attempted genocide against Nation, I don't see why my attitude towards Outsiders should change.


And your Incursions are equally unprovoked and are a genocide of just a different kind.


What, you mean the assaults into enemy territory during a war that we did not start? Go on and do tell me that no one else invades enemy territory in a war. Please. Also we do not commit genocide. We do not glass the planets of the enemy, as was done to us. Our response is actually tempered and less harsh then what started this affair. Because the death of humanity is not our goal.

What is your goal?

N'maro Makari wrote:


Not quite as cute as someone so assured that a name beneath their portrait makes them infallible on their chosen topic.

Perhaps you should consider "There are no history books in Nation" as an appropriate slogan?


I have seen more of the relevant history behind this topic with the eyes of those who were there then you could possibly imagine.

Besides, who's history books would you have me read? The ones written by those who attempt to justify their wholesale slaughter of Nation?
Anslo
Scope Works
#2 - 2013-06-21 19:37:08 UTC
Most Empire's don't chop up people and cyberize them to the point of not being human anymore.

Also, slavery in Amarr was around for a few thousand years. Hard to cleanse that from an entire Empire to create a signatory. Better to make exceptions for now to ensure some sort of peace instead of fiddling over paperwork while we kill each other.

How long was en masse mind control and unethical experimentation/weaponization of unsuspecting people around?

Oh, wait.

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Derek Quaid
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-06-21 19:43:20 UTC
Looks like the Nation brand isn't trendy anymore. I would think that in your little incursions, you might have thought to abduct some Quafe marketing executives to help you with some new gimmicks. Blatant lies don't seem to be working anymore.

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Laurienne 'Quafegirl' Cherbourg
Like Oh My Gosh I Totally Have A Corp Now
#4 - 2013-06-21 19:45:28 UTC
Derek Quaid wrote:
I would think that in your little incursions, you might have thought to abduct some Quafe marketing executives to help you with some new gimmicks.


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Go Team Kuvakei~!!!

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Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#5 - 2013-06-21 19:45:33 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Most Empire's don't chop up people and cyberize them to the point of not being human anymore.


In that statement are 2 things. 1, we do things to people against their will. Well so do most other empires. You enact your culture's methods upon criminals, do you not? Why? Because your culture says that they are broken and must be fixed. This can be imprisonment, drugs, re-education, etc. Your culture says This Must Be Fixed. And so you Fix people against their will, because they are Broken.

We fix that which is broken according to our culture. Can we say it's ok to kill you simply because you handle the fixing of broken people differently? If we cannot but you can because you say so might as well end any discussion.

2, the statement says that adding cybernetic modification and making a person, by volume, less baseliner human. I'm sorry, when did that become a bad thing? Humanity has been doing that forever. I didn't realize you were opposed to cybernetic modification. Also I can assure you that I am less modified then some people I have seen on the streets of Gallente cities.

Anslo wrote:
Also, slavery in Amarr was around for a few thousand years. Hard to cleanse that from an entire Empire to create a signatory. Better to make exceptions for now to ensure some sort of peace instead of fiddling over paperwork while we kill each other.

How long was en masse mind control and unethical experimentation/weaponization of unsuspecting people around?

Oh, wait.


"They've been around forever so it's ok."

So it's not what people do but how long they've been doing it? News to me.
Anslo
Scope Works
#6 - 2013-06-21 19:52:24 UTC
Evi Polevhia wrote:
In that statement are 2 things. 1, we do things to people against their will. Well so do most other empires. You enact your culture's methods upon criminals, do you not? Why? Because your culture says that they are broken and must be fixed. This can be imprisonment, drugs, re-education, etc. Your culture says This Must Be Fixed. And so you Fix people against their will, because they are Broken. We fix that which is broken according to our culture. Can we say it's ok to kill you simply because you handle the fixing of broken people differently? If we cannot but you can because you say so might as well end any discussion.

No, because they're a threat or have a mental disease that can be fixed without taking away free will or turning them into a shambling husk of metal, pointy bits and gun to use as an armed force.

Quote:
2, the statement says that adding cybernetic modification and making a person, by volume, less baseliner human. I'm sorry, when did that become a bad thing?
It isn't inherently. It's when you do it against someone's will whether or not they've committed a crime or something that's the problem.


Quote:
"They've been around forever so it's ok." So it's not what people do but how long they've been doing it? News to me.

Nice way to misrepresent words. Simply saying they've been around forever is not as small a thing as you'd make it out to be. The Empire's grew and flourished for thousands of years before space flight and making war with each other. Eventually they realized that maybe, just maybe, unrestricted war fare is a bad idea.

So, with some help from those oversized raisins the Jove, CONCORD was established to keep things in check. However, CONCORD could not dictate or mandate what was right and what was wrong to other Empire's with a few THOUSAND years of history and pre-established cultural norms. They could simply attempt to keep the Empire's from going at each other because of those different.

Kuvakei decided to go out and take a scalpel to some people and control minds. Little bit of a difference.

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]

Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#7 - 2013-06-21 20:18:35 UTC
Anslo wrote:
No, because they're a threat or have a mental disease that can be fixed without taking away free will or turning them into a shambling husk of metal, pointy bits and gun to use as an armed force.
...
It isn't inherently. It's when you do it against someone's will whether or not they've committed a crime or something that's the problem.


So are you trying to say it is a problem when you do something to someone against their will? Regardless of their criminal status?

Anslo wrote:
Nice way to misrepresent words. Simply saying they've been around forever is not as small a thing as you'd make it out to be. The Empire's grew and flourished for thousands of years before space flight and making war with each other. Eventually they realized that maybe, just maybe, unrestricted war fare is a bad idea.

So, with some help from those oversized raisins the Jove, CONCORD was established to keep things in check. However, CONCORD could not dictate or mandate what was right and what was wrong to other Empire's with a few THOUSAND years of history and pre-established cultural norms. They could simply attempt to keep the Empire's from going at each other because of those different.

Kuvakei decided to go out and take a scalpel to some people and control minds. Little bit of a difference.


Ah, ok. So it's as simple as saying True Power was established to keep Humanity in check. By saying that I now have the right to enforce my laws on empire space, like the empires did in Stain, yes?
Seriphyn Inhonores
Elusenian Cooperative
#8 - 2013-06-21 20:18:45 UTC
This is a pretty black and white argument, the Sansha being black, and human civilization being white.

Simple as that. Don't waste your time.
Anslo
Scope Works
#9 - 2013-06-21 20:25:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Anslo
Evi Polevhia wrote:
So are you trying to say it is a problem when you do something to someone against their will? Regardless of their criminal status?

No, not just something. It's mind control and forced cyberization to make soldiers that's the issue.

Quote:
Ah, ok. So it's as simple as saying True Power was established to keep Humanity in check.

No, because the Four combined resources under an entity attempting to keep the peace, not enforce a perverted standard.

Quote:
By saying that I now have the right to enforce my laws on empire space, like the empires did in Stain, yes?

Nope, because the Four didn't agree. Or did you miss the part about working with the Jove to create CONCORD?

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]

Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#10 - 2013-06-21 20:31:28 UTC
Seriphyn Inhonores wrote:
This is a pretty black and white argument, the Sansha being black, and human civilization being white.

Simple as that. Don't waste your time.


You don't have to be bitter. You can visit them.
Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#11 - 2013-06-21 20:38:04 UTC
Anslo wrote:
No, not just something. It's mind control and forced cyberization to make soldiers that's the issue.


So controlling someone's mind. It's almost as if there were drugs that did that.... Can we use that and then join your little party in CONCORD? We promise to only do the same things the others do. You won't even notice the difference!

Anslo wrote:
No, because the Four did not combine resources under an entity attempting to keep the peace, not enforce a perverted standard.


Peace by your standard. We will keep the peace by our standard in our lands. And yet your people are the ones who crossed over to our lands.

Anslo wrote:
Nope, because the Four didn't agree. Or did you miss the part about working with the Jove to create CONCORD?


So the Jove gave you the right to tell my people how to run our society far away from you?
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#12 - 2013-06-21 20:40:59 UTC
Evi Polevhia wrote:
Anslo wrote:
Also, slavery in Amarr was around for a few thousand years. Hard to cleanse that from an entire Empire to create a signatory. Better to make exceptions for now to ensure some sort of peace instead of fiddling over paperwork while we kill each other.

How long was en masse mind control and unethical experimentation/weaponization of unsuspecting people around?

Oh, wait.


"They've been around forever so it's ok."

So it's not what people do but how long they've been doing it? News to me.


Ours is for the purpose of providing spiritual education to the faithless.

Yours is about turning them into mindless, Godless cogs in your machine nation.

This is why the Empire turned on Nation. What you are doing is despicable.
Anslo
Scope Works
#13 - 2013-06-21 20:41:45 UTC
Evi Polevhia wrote:
So controlling someone's mind. It's almost as if there were drugs that did that.... Can we use that and then join your little party in CONCORD? We promise to only do the same things the others do. You won't even notice the difference!

Yes, the Amarr. That goes back to that whole history bit. But you'd choose to ignore that, wouldn't you?

Quote:
Peace by your standard. We will keep the peace by our standard in our lands. And yet your people are the ones who crossed over to our lands.

Tends to happen when loved ones get turned into walking guns and a threatening presence gets a bit too big and reachy.

Quote:
So the Jove gave you the right to tell my people how to run our society far away from you?

No, the Jove gave us the right and ability to keep ourselves from tearing each other apart completely and returning to the dark ages. Sansha threatened that peace.

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]

Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#14 - 2013-06-21 20:46:10 UTC
Samira Kernher wrote:


Ours is for the purpose of providing spiritual education to the faithless.

Yours is about turning them into mindless, Godless cogs in your machine nation.

This is why the Empire turned on Nation. What you are doing is despicable.


Ours is for the purpose of providing the advancement of humanity to everyone.

Yours is about turning them into mindless, delusional cogs in your theocratic empire.

This is why the Empire is corrupted. What you are doing is not helping Humanity.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#15 - 2013-06-21 20:56:45 UTC
Evi Polevhia wrote:
Seriphyn Inhonores wrote:
This is a pretty black and white argument, the Sansha being black, and human civilization being white.

Simple as that. Don't waste your time.


You don't have to be bitter. You can visit them.


He was actually making a point in your defense, you insufferable fool.

You should be thanking him, not trying to kick him where it hurts most.

Katrina Oniseki

Steffanie Saissore
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#16 - 2013-06-21 20:58:18 UTC
The eradication of the individual and free will is pretty much a genocide, from my point of view. You are systematically eradicating one of the very foundations of humanity: our diversity; our ability to think for ourselves, plot our own destiny, and our ability to feel emotions.

Conflict is going to happen because of this...passion and faith are deeply rooted in all of us and when our beliefs or way of living is questioned by an outsider, things can get out of hand. Still, I would rather have the option of getting into a heated discussion as to why a particular brandy is better than another than be rendered unable to even have that thought in the first place.

Your claim that the death of humanity is not your goal is a smoke screen. The whole point of Nation is to allow one man to play God over humanity.

Captain Inhonores is correct in this matter being one of black and white. The unfortunate thing is you cannot even consider arguments against Nation's actions as being possibly valid because the one thing that makes you human has been stripped from you and replaced with the desires and dreams of another.

We travel in the dark of the new moon,

A starry highway traced on the map of the sky

Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#17 - 2013-06-21 21:03:21 UTC
Steffanie Saissore wrote:
The unfortunate thing is you cannot even consider arguments against Nation's actions as being possibly valid because the one thing that makes you human has been stripped from you and replaced with the desires and dreams of another.


A common lie perpetuated by members of TSF is that they have 'not been networked' or otherwise altered. Of course, if you challenge this lie, they will challenge you back to provide proof. If they do, simply request they submit to vivisection at the next available opportunity.

Katrina Oniseki

Anslo
Scope Works
#18 - 2013-06-21 21:05:58 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Steffanie Saissore wrote:
The unfortunate thing is you cannot even consider arguments against Nation's actions as being possibly valid because the one thing that makes you human has been stripped from you and replaced with the desires and dreams of another.


A common lie perpetuated by members of TSF is that they have 'not been networked' or otherwise altered. Of course, if you challenge this lie, they will challenge you back to provide proof. If they do, simply request they submit to vivisection at the next available opportunity.

Medically sound advise.
Yes.

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]

Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#19 - 2013-06-21 21:09:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Evi Polevhia
Steffanie Saissore wrote:
The eradication of the individual and free will is pretty much a genocide, from my point of view.


How very nice for you to have the Universe bend so that your point of view is a universal truth.

Steffanie Saissore wrote:
Still, I would rather have the option of getting into a heated discussion as to why a particular brandy is better than another than be rendered unable to even have that thought in the first place. ... The whole point of Nation is to allow one man to play God over humanity.

Captain Inhonores is correct in this matter being one of black and white. The unfortunate thing is you cannot even consider arguments against Nation's actions as being possibly valid because the one thing that makes you human has been stripped from you and replaced with the desires and dreams of another.


It's so sad to see that you accept everything you are told about us without confirming anything at all.

There are plenty of discussions, heated and otherwise. There are differences of opinion as well.

And my desire and dreams have been my own from the start. The eradication of fear, of pain, of ignorance. His dreams mirror my own. His ability is strong enough to achieve it. There is no other path. If you think otherwise I would be glad to see it.

Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Steffanie Saissore wrote:
The unfortunate thing is you cannot even consider arguments against Nation's actions as being possibly valid because the one thing that makes you human has been stripped from you and replaced with the desires and dreams of another.


A common lie perpetuated by members of TSF is that they have 'not been networked' or otherwise altered. Of course, if you challenge this lie, they will challenge you back to provide proof. If they do, simply request they submit to vivisection at the next available opportunity.


I have been Networked into the Foundations, but not Nation proper. And when that day comes, I shall be glad of it. But I'm not destined for such an achievement yet. If my status of connection with Nation is such an important thing to you, I shall let you know first when it does happen. I will sing it from the mountaintops.

And if you do wish to dissect me, my location is not kept secret. But know that any crew you lose in the attempt, you will never get back.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#20 - 2013-06-21 21:17:19 UTC
Evi Polevhia wrote:

And if you do wish to dissect me, my location is not kept secret. But know that any crew you lose in the attempt, you will never get back.


I'm not like you. I don't force people into it.

Katrina Oniseki

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