Blowing People Up

[worldstrider]

No offense to those I spoke to tonight...they handled it fine...but it did prompt me to want to bring this up again.

I've played a "powerful and influential Junker leader", a little bit of "Diplomat" and a "Fleet Commander". In all those I always have gotten threatened (and usually attacked) for reasons such as these:

1. You lookin' at me!?
   
2. Insult me one more time!
   
3. Ah--a Junker--let's kill it for fun!
   

...hopefully you get the idea.

I know there will be an occasional mad dog Killer out there along with aliens and terrorists and Mon'star. No worries there--but your average "I have to live in this universe after you die" character HAS to think of the consequences.

Kill a diplomat? Interstellar Incident.
Kill a cop? Sirius's Most Wanted.
Shoot down a liner? Mass Murderer.
Shoot down a criminal lord? Hit list.

So things like, "I woke up mad today!" or "I don't like your tone of voice." aren't justifications for homicide or an act of war. usually I run into this with criminals butt in like manner if you are a cop and do a "summary execution", you are going to lose your badge.

I think it is very important not just for me to rant but for members of varying groups to reinforce that sort of role play. If you are an LPI commander and an LPI officer guns down a trader--he becomes a "bad cop" and you go after him. Bounty hunter takes a wrong bounty? He gets punished by his own for "breaking the code". Crimnal gang member who exectues another criminal leader? Your own faction gets angry becasue you started a gang war.

Things to ponder.

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