Intergalactic Summit

A true Amarrian would know good advise when it is heard.

Fundamental aspects of the good faith are "universal", "all is one" and "love". A true Amarrian knows this, and humbles himself when faced with the grandeur of the rest of the universe. He does not go around thinking he is better than everything else. A true Amarrian is humble, not inflated with visions of his own grandeur.

Also, all this talk about immortality. Dont you know that it is established belief that all beings are considered immortal, it is well known and many millenium old. Thus it is also quite irrelevant and carries no value if you live a billion years, what matters is how you live your life, and in what condition you keep your soul. Thus, being immortal is not necessarily a blessing, if it is a life spent in ignorance and vain.

Humble yourself and be considerate. Lower your head and keep it lower than anyone elses. See to that which is best for the one next to you, and put your self in the 2nd room. And remember, speech may be silver, but silence is gold.

If Humility were the chief aspect of the faith we would still be chanting in caves on Athra, instead of having bent it to our will. We would still be confined to a single continent on a single planet, instead of spreading our will to billions.

Perhaps we should continue this privately however as I have allowed things to stray off topic. A rare apology to the OP for a breach in manors.

While it has been interesting to view the wandering thoughts of those who have voiced their opinion here I find the original point to be mute and lost.

Honour has always been a simple thing to me. Put in layman terms it is merely the way one handles the consequences of ones choices. Nothing more, nothing less. To have great honour is to accept responsibility, in the given example if the pilot who lost his ship in a 1v1 duel that turned out to be a 1v5 fight accepted the defeat with grace and dignity, accepting that the loss was his responsibility then I would state that the pilot was honourable. Likewise, if he instead placed the blame on his opponent then I would argue that the pilot was not as honourable as he might have been.
Understand, the outcome of the fight is irrelevant in assessing his/her honour, merely the way in-which they DEAL with that outcome. Whether or not the loss was due to underhanded tactics or not the pilots honour is shown through his actions and words.

"Chivalry" is however another thing entirely and is very easy to determine. Every warrior society has held a similar code in the past and in some cases, continue to maintain some kind of code. One need only analyse a "chivalrous" pilots actions and cross-reference them with their code of honour in order to determine if they are chivalrous or not. That said, the true test comes when you must make a choice to maintain your code, or to make the easy choice. Especially if that choice is made "in the dark" where nobody but you will know the outcome.

Personally I have always tried to follow a simple set of rules: Do the best you can with what you've got, Do as little harm as is reasonably possible to as few people as you can, and in all fairness let no one call you a hypocrite.



On a side note, why do you continue to debate with Miss Vitalia on this matter of crew safety in duals? She has already made it abundantly clear that her position is not falsifiable, there is no reason what-so-ever to continue to any debate.
I truly mean no offence by that Miss Vitalia by the way. It is merely my experience that Amarrian people tend to argue from a position of faith rather than reason and while I do not believe one or the other to be superior one cannot reasonably argue from the position of faith because faith is not falsifiable and in order to hold reasonable discourse both parties position must be falsifiable or there is no rational reason to hold the debate in the first place.

Mr. Hound,

I will agree with you on one point, in that accepting personal responsibility is extremely important in our lives. It touches all aspects of our lives as capsuleers; how we carry ourselves, how we interact with others, etc. This goes to my earlier point that your reputation is what truly matters, be it good or bad.





My views are well known. Taking a brief look at your own combat record Jaiga it would appear ship crews are far, far safer in my ships than in yours. Perhaps "word should get around" about you?

You mean the hordes upon hordes of frigates? Yes, those. But bits of metal and pride, Lady Vitalia.

Now, on the occasion that I am out and about in something larger and I lose it, rest assured that I'm quite angry for the rest of the week. Have you ever wondered why I've adopted such pro-frigate stances?