Intergalactic Summit

You equate
taking precautions for the lives under your command
with
removing all danger from their positions.

Moral culpability lies with the aggressor. Whatever word you want to use is immaterial.

I agree. And is not the slaver the aggressor against the rights of all mankind?

No.

Moral responsibility is not transitive a group. It rests upon the individual.

While even one person remains enslaved, none of us are free.

As soon as you define morality.

Seriously, now - let's not be obtuse.

Nor am I. My job is saving lives, not ending them. War is coming to Providence, I am merely attempting to minimize the loss of life.

Yet you spend your efforts on telling the defenders to lay down their arms , instead of telling the aggressors to lay down theirs. Telling.

Yes. I spend my efforts here, where the defenders can read my words, speaking to them. Shall I, then, speak to the residents of Providence in internal Goonswarm communiques? I doubt they'll get most of them. What I say to those within my Alliance, I say to them in our own communications systems, where they are more likely to read those words. Our fleet commanders know what I do. They know I oppose empty, needless deaths. But please, feel free to continue to ride your high horse and offer lectures on a morality you cannot even clearly define. I have no such difficulties:

Moral action is that action which is in-line with the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people. All other action is at least amoral, having neither moral, nor immoral implications, or actively immoral, pursuing its goals despite clear implication of long-term harm to a significant portion of humanity.

If the choice is between war and slavery, then war - which will kill a given numberof people now, but inflict limited harm on future generations - is more moral than permitting the existence of slavery. Slavery not only harms people in the present, it harms future generations as well, both by perpetuating the oppression and by perpetuating the tolerance and acceptance of oppression. If one death now prevents over a thousand children from being born into slavery over the next century (10 slaves have 2 children each. 2 decades later, those 20 have 2 children each. Another 2 decades, and those 40 have 2 children each. At 60 year, each of those 80 has 2. At 80, each of those 160 has 2. By the century mark, the current generation has given birth to 640 slaves, plus the 320 + 160 + 80 + 40 + 20 = 1,280), then how can you say that one death is immoral?

Is it an evil? Of course. But it may be a necessary evil.

That does not mean I advocate war. Only that sometimes, I accept its necessity. And when it is necessary, then I will not hesitate to plead with our enemies to not waste their lives needlessly. I have seen hundreds of thousands of men and women die for nothing in a single day. I have watched as titans, the ships designed by the Empires to be all but unstoppable, withered and died one after another for hours on end. I have seen hundreds of battleships consumed in fire in a matter of minutes, supercarriers dying faster than their crew can understand what is happening to them under a dozen simultaneous Doomsday weapons. I have seen these things and I have tried again and again to mitigate the loss, to save what lives can be saved, and still I dedicate myself to that proposition.

But you, who are nothing but a murderer of small things by ones and twos, you would lecture me on the horrors of war? Educate yourself, little fish. The sea between the stars is great, and wide.

Economic warfare places stress on an economic system. Blockades and interdiction of shipping, much like sanctions, makes it harder to keep an economy moving forward. This, in turn, promotes individuals and economic leaders questioning the 'accepted wisdom' of the current methods of doing things, and encourages them to ask why the interdiction happened in the first place.

I can't like this post enough.

Also to the OP, you're not even in the main combat arm of Goonswarm. Does Trav know you're trying to speak on behalf of Goonswarm? Have you been focused more on these ridiculous posts or making sure your participation rate is up? Shouldn't you be busy staging and not flapping your gums as an unauthorized rep? Just curious.