The trend of politics in CN is that movement occurs multilaterally; WoTC, Karma, the World Wars, Unjust war, you name it, they all were effected on the coalition level. Thus, an approach to politics with a unilateral focus, such as the historical trend of signing non-chaining treaties with "friends", and not judging the political implications of "their friends", runs counter to the way politics actually occur. This carries with it the threat of having one's interests marginalized and one's movem
Was is active; either hot or cold, direct or indirect. I'm going to focus on direct war today. It connects individuals and groups in a struggle for dominance, whether in a wide or narrow window. War is the key transaction around which our system of politics is built, due to its disproportional influence on NS.
Direct war is one of five transactions for connecting our nations. They are War, Trade, Aid, Spy, and Make Donation. Aid, trade, and donations are all conducive to the accumulation of N
I've always enjoyed the morality debate to an extent, so here is my attempt to chime in.
Morality identifies transcendent qualities for appropriate interaction; it recognizes a system wide connection with proscribed purpose and intention. Morality in RL fails as a transcendent concept simply by nature of unique consciousness vs. universal unconsciousness; “I” is by nature separated from “It”, and any transcendent purpose and intention is hidden within the universal unconscious, if indeed it is
