Vilien

These are two excellent alliances, and I'm glad to see them getting closer together.

MK reminds us why all other attempts at making propaganda are futile.

TORN has been a fantastic ally of ours since day one. Their leadership is a credit to the alliance, and I'm honored to be next to them. Their choice of allies isn't ideal, but it's the way things are at the moment.

I'm not sure you read my post.

This war began, as all wars do, with a fundamental error of understanding. \m/'s decision, among others, to attack a sovereign body outraged those who saw it as a breach of communal trust. The issue was resolved, quickly, and seemed likely to disappear into the back pages of history. This was not so. One individual took it upon himself to right a perceived wrong. His word was strong enough to force the aggressors to relent, or so he thought. Upon entering channels of diplomacy, ever full of the intent to provoke a war, AlmightyGrub was given that which he desired. \m/ members hurled racial slurs at the leader of a powerful and influential alliance. Such abject ignorance, or arrogance, placed these two alliances on a path of collision. Parties on both sides did their utmost to create conflict and discord from the very beginning of the negotiations. With an easy solution discarded in favor of belligerence, alliances marshaled their forces. The winds of war set the treaty web into a whirlwind of motion. This unnatural conflagration placed friend against friend in an inane and purposeless struggle. Escalation dragged alliance after alliance into the storm. The earliest peace talks were destroyed by the vindictive issuances of petty tyrants. Emperor and Triumvirs showed themselves to be creatures driven and derided by vanity. It was from this moment that many of us were fully aware that we too would be involved in this struggle. Some welcomed it with open arms, some looked upon it with trepidation. They entered the fray and performed their service with bravery and dedication to their friends and allies. They were caught, as I am now, in a senseless combat. We had embarked into a war with the flimsiest of pretenses. This struggle is meaningless. We do not fight to determine whether \m/'s actions, or even those of Polaris' raiding allies, were justified. We do not fight to teach a lesson to an imperialist who overstepped his bounds. That conflict is over, as it was before it even began. There is no purpose to this fighting beyond a demonstration of our inability to restrain ourselves. Do those proud, strutting hawks among you find no validation except in tangling with an imagined foe? I find myself now standing amidst the foolhardy and reckless. The Order of Paradox declared war in haste and in vain. Your pretense for an opportunistic assault has been removed as quickly as your desired support. The writing on the walls was blood red. Were you too blind to see it? Did you ignore your senses and your reason? I hold an obligation, as did those who came before me, to honor the words of my agreements. The Moralist Front now faces war with our close friends in the Complaints and Grievances bloc. We do so at the behest of our traditional opponents, the serpents of history, The Order of Paradox and the Independent Republic of Orange Nations. We hold no stakes in this conflict and are as disinterested in its outcome as we were in the conflict between \m/ and Polaris. This war is as senseless as the one that preceded it. Yet we will march in, heads held high, for the idea of losing face is more detestable to us than our destruction. This is the curse of the proud. The Moralist Front recognizes a state of war with every alliance that has attacked and will attack our allies in The Order of Righteous Nations. We wish those who fight us luck, and we are reassured to know that they will triumph over the pitiable opportunists who mar the names of TMF and TORN with their association. Man's folly marches on. Signed, Vilien, Speaker of the Moralist Front The General Assembly of the Moralist Front

lolMisr, make a poll about it. Just like the good ol days.

A key requirement of good writing is editing and rewording your thoughts. Your piece would have been much more effective had you taken the time to properly revise it. Still, you demonstrate an advanced grasp of the English language, only when compared to most forum users of course, and for that I commend you.

I responded to the typical "lulz" oriented responses, which you mirrored pretty clearly by posting a bunch of inane images. Of course, I do forget that issues of right and wrong are things that deserve consistently lukewarm reactions.

He's referring to the Guru Order, which has lost 20% of its nation strength after a single day of fighting.

Your image macros are almost as compelling as the idea that there are ways to play this game that don't involve acting like an idiot all the time.

Sorry for wasting your precious time.

I see we've managed to reach new heights with Declarations of Optional Support.

You can show us that you support your allies when you enter the war. This announcement was completely unnecessary.

The only worthwhile post in this thread will be mpol's discussion of the benefits of cannibalism.

Congratulations and thanks for the shout out.

Aircastle frightens me.

Winter War or I make a moral outrage post every day of this conflict. I'm serious.

Actually, sir, I believe that name is wrong.

So it took you thirteen edits to revert the changes I made in four of mine? Okay, chief.

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You've shown yourself not to be an expert on the wiki by not understanding how to look at the History page. Feel free to try again when you demonstrate sufficient understanding of the topic at hand.

Here's a thought: people play the game differently. Get over it. Other people enjoy playing moralist characters. It's no more ridiculous than extracting pleasure from hurting other people in a browser game. I know it enrages you when people call you out on doing stupid things, but you've got to realize that altruism is just as valid as schadenfreude. Also, your comparison to the Catholic Church is patently ridiculous. When has moralism ever been a dominant factor in politics? Even then, the vast majority of moralists don't go around violently imposing their beliefs on other people. I don't even think I need to go into that nonsense you slapped in at the end.

Glad that you agree on leaving my war page alone. That's all I needed.

Communal consensus determines the wiki's standards.

Just like no one would have any idea what the Eight Minute War is. There are an infinite number of potential war names, your not being able to falsely label this as a war about morality isn't going to harm any innocent wiki browsers. The last time I checked a wiki is not analogous to an autocracy.