Intergalactic Summit

This is a new low, even for you, Blake. Over 160,000 innocent humans, regardless of ethnicity or race, were murdered and all you have to offer is this tripe? So much for supposed benevolence of the Amarrian "master race". And you wonder why your people are nearly universally despised...

Down with this sort of thing as well.

I love freedom and I applaud anyone willing to place their own freedom, life and wealth on the line to do so. That being said, if you choose to take this righteous task upon yourself you have a duty to do it without your head in your ass. I would call for this pilots expulsion from the armed forces and to have their right to fly revoked. Pirates will be pirates, they have their own jobs to fulfill so they cannot be blamed for doing what they do. The person who can be blamed is the idiot who decided to fill a freighter with poor slaves and fly, unescorted, into this den of thieves. She may aswell have took out her scrambler pistol to each of their heads and blown their brains out.

**** happens.

While I don't condone or agree with slavery, the blood is on the freighter pilot's hands for being thick headed and dumbassed enough to fly the vessel through Utopia of all places without an escort.

Whether they were slaves, mine workers, commercial passengers or livestock is irrelevant, a freighter or transport pilot has a duty of care and responsibility to their passengers and cargo.

A tragic loss of life. I hope many of them were at least properly prepared to release their souls into the are of God.

For those who are quick to point fingers or place blame, has anyone yet contacted the pilot in question?

Additionally some of you, like pirate-leader Verone, are typical in their blaming-the-victim approach. I think the primary responsibility for getting shot tends to be with the person pulling the trigger.

I have always found Verone to be courteous towards Matari and an avid detractor of slavery.

Maybe you should leave your insults for people you actually know.

What a tragedy. This just goes to show once again what an abominable bunch of putrid low lives pirates are.

I concur. Why should we not reproach this pack of murderers? Because they chose their profession and are unwilling to change? What kind of argument is that?

So because someone is unwilling to change his or her behavior you simply tolerate it, no matter how opposed you are to it? Are you really such a pushover, Lyris? I don’t see how this is pragmatic unless you avoid every and all conflicts.

Quick question: Ultimately child abuse (or pretty much every other prime) cannot be prevented but does that really stop you from condemning said crimes? Do you really just shrug your shoulders at them and go “Meh, I can’t change it”?

So then why would the fact that I cannot “prevent piracy” stop me from condemning it as the horrible malefaction that it is? Attitudes like yours are what benefits piracy among other things. If it were up to people like you then CONCORD would not even bother to punish criminals in high sec space.

I am aware of that. What I am trying to do is finding out whether she is able to admit to her hypocrisy or not (even if just indirectly) which is why I appealed to her selfishness (a common trait among “goon” scum). Would she tolerate crime merely because she cannot change it? Would that really stop her from admonishing evildoers that did her wrong?