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' Wrote:that's already happened, we wouldn't be the first.
RM dictates cap ships
zoners and junkers have similar councils, I just don't know how much power those hold.
' Wrote:I will not easily agree to allowing any individual player or player faction group to impose their definitions or conceptions on anyone else who disagrees with them and back that up with gunfire. This has been tried here in various forms... We may be stuck with some of them, but that is no reason to bend over and grab our ankles when more try to muscle their way in.
What any other faction does is not sufficient justification for carte blanche permission for BS| or any other faction to do the same thing.
This post will largely be philosophical, so if it makes your head spin, then you shouldn't attempt to draw any rough conclusions from it. I am talking about the nature of power structures, and Disco is merely an example of a power structure.
You see, this is the real truth about Power in the world that few people ever realize : whatever power you wield rarely originates with you, but instead is delegated to you by some other source. In the case of Disco, all power originates from the Administration, because the Administration has the exclusive ability to decide what is allowed and what is prohibited by virtue of possessing the only means of enforcing those decisions (banning and punishing those who flout those decisions). Factions possess zero power inherently, and only wield the power that is granted to them by the Administration which permits their activities to proceed without interference. The same is true of individual players as well. No faction is entitled to any privileges or rights whatsoever. They are granted by the Administration as it sees fit. Look at system ownership. Who grants possession of systems? The Administration does according to the rules it established. Factions have no inherent right to system ownership, nor can a faction do anything to claim ownership without the Administration's approval. Factions and individual players derive their power on the server from the enforcement power of the decisions regarding gameplay made by the Administration just like your arms and legs derive their power of movement from the decisions made by your brain.
Does BS| even have power on the server to blow up those who disagree with it? Not if the Administration decides it doesn't, by virtue of the fact that if every BS| ship is in Bastille, they won't be blowing up anyone except each other. The power to conduct PvP is in fact a privilege granted by the Administration, and removed when it is used contrary to the Administration's decisions.
So it really doesn't matter what RM does, when it comes to what BS| or any other faction can do. They are not inherently entitled to their version of a fascist dictatorship, but they are allowed it. Neither BS| nor any other faction is entitled to it either, and it is the exclusive decision of the Administration as to whether it ever wields it to any degree.
So in other words, "Look what he did" is irrelevant to whether or not you will be allowed to do the same thing. That's simply the way the world operates.
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