Intergalactic Summit

Can you?

And how will you strive to not be an enabler of the economy of mass-slaughter? I'm not trying to be a smartass or anything, either, Jaret, I'm honestly curious: how can any pilot keep their hands clean? My role is attempting to keep people alive, but I readily admit, that the people I'm keeping alive are generally in the process of killing other people when I do it.

And that's ultimately true of every 'non-lethal' part of the capsuleer economy: it all supports the violence. I really don't think it's possible to be a part of the capsuleer economy and not be part of the problem. And I think that will remain true as long as pirate bounties, looted deadspace modules, sporting-event-wars between the empires, and all of the other bloody aspects of the capsuleer economy exist, and are primarily tuned around the idea of producing and marketing the instruments of death.

Pathetic.

A captain of a warship should be ready to push the trigger disregarding losses on enemy side. The war is a war, and the loss of life is expected before it starts. If you weep over those, who die under your guns - you are not suited to command a warship. Tear your implants off and step aside for someone more competent to take your place.

On the other hand, disregarding presence of human being aboard of ships and stations is a sign on CDS.

Acknowledge there are people, and respect them, giving them quick and honorable death in combat, like every soldier, including me, deserves.

There's nothing inherently negative about destruction. Without destruction, all you have is stagnation. You'll have festering problems instead of room for rebuilding something better. Without the bloodshed of war from one side, another side would assuredly tear you down for their own ends. Without aggression towards tyrants, they would rule New Eden.

The tricky bit is leaving enough room for creation, building, peace and safekeeping to offset it all.

While balance is mostly spoken of in spiritual matters among my kind, that principle is just as important for the rest of New Eden. Without destruction, there is no creation. Stars die for worlds to live. Without violence and bloodshed to protect it, peace exists only for the conquerors and warlords in the end.

Strike the balance, rather than living on the edges of the curve. Neither of the extremes can even see morally or ethically defensible standpoints from where they are.

You try to win every single argument, Arrendis. There's no point in answering because you will go on and on until I either stop talking to you or say "Oh yes, you are right".

I'll just skip ahead and go invest my time somewhere else, if you will excuse me.

This was an argument? I thought it was a discussion, Jaret. You know, where we both talk about things and ask one another questions? Isn't part of the idea of a discussion that we continue, you know, discussing things? If you've got a better way to try to 'work toward making it better for others', I'm all ears. In fact, I specifically asked for one, remember?