a) most of that is your own extrapolation, not shown in the text
moratcorlm Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 04:56:14 PM
It does not mean that their owner can't decide to have them strapped or maimed or simply killed.
b) it's hardly unique to property, as the plight of the ostensibly free working class in Randland shows. There is evidence in the text of Randland servants being starved, beaten, and raped without any furor. These are brutish pre-Enlightenment societies one and all.
There are plenty of good arguments against the Seanchan, but as they say, you are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. Lies don't help your case.
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Seanchan Takeover of Randland
22/01/2011 11:25:36 PM
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I would be mostly okay with it if they abolished slavery first
23/01/2011 12:19:48 AM
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Hopefully the Dragon's Peace (not the one Avi saw the effects of) those concerns. *NM*
23/01/2011 03:21:04 AM
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You mean utter anarchy and a dangerously stratified society?
23/01/2011 07:24:48 AM
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The situation in Seanchan isn't that unique
23/01/2011 07:49:28 AM
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there's tons of problems there, but 20+ leaders/royals killed? Disaster anywhere... *NM*
23/01/2011 11:38:57 AM
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Funny; Caemlyn's succession crises aren't nearly as bad. *NM*
23/01/2011 11:00:45 PM
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Rand deserves some credit, he did get involved early and held the Lion Throne for Elayne. *NM*
24/01/2011 08:47:42 AM
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The anarchy is what happens in the absence of Seanchan power.
27/01/2011 01:10:56 PM
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Yes. That is a flaw of Seanchan governance.
28/01/2011 01:54:00 AM
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It's not the Empire's fault, and that flaw is not being duplicated in the wetlands
28/01/2011 11:24:00 PM
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Wait... the indegenous Seanchan haven't changed in a thousand years?
29/01/2011 02:09:05 AM
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Re: Wait... the indegenous Seanchan haven't changed in a thousand years?
29/01/2011 01:10:36 PM
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Re: Wait... the indegenous Seanchan haven't changed in a thousand years?
29/01/2011 10:02:27 PM
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Re: Wait... the indegenous Seanchan haven't changed in a thousand years?
30/01/2011 03:56:23 AM
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It's like you don't even read anything when you post. My posts, the books themselves...
02/02/2011 06:41:10 PM
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They treat channelers like DOGS! so, No. *NM*
23/01/2011 07:56:22 AM
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Dogs never broke the world or created Shadowspawn, so they have it coming *NM*
27/01/2011 01:07:32 PM
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The Pattern certainly has some plan or purpose for the Seanchan.
23/01/2011 10:59:33 AM
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That's what's scary. In many ways, the Seanchan embody the goals of the Pattern
23/01/2011 11:41:35 PM
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If we're going to personify things, we should be personifying the Wheel, not the Pattern.
24/01/2011 12:13:49 AM
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I think it's interesting
24/01/2011 09:23:40 AM
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Re: That's what's scary. In many ways, the Seanchan embody the goals of the Pattern
24/01/2011 12:38:38 PM
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Um, no
23/01/2011 11:36:24 AM
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look around you again
23/01/2011 03:24:01 PM
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Seanchan equality before the law
23/01/2011 04:09:54 PM
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Re: Seanchan equality before the law
23/01/2011 04:22:28 PM
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a) most of that is your own extrapolation, not shown in the text
23/01/2011 04:56:14 PM
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Mostly, yes.
23/01/2011 05:57:17 PM
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Re: Mostly, yes.
23/01/2011 06:10:10 PM
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I see them as neccessary evil to eventually eliminate channeling.
24/01/2011 08:04:21 PM
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Re: I see them as neccessary evil to eventually eliminate channeling.
25/01/2011 10:40:58 AM
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Re: I see them as neccessary evil to eventually eliminate channeling.
25/01/2011 05:55:13 PM
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Re: I see them as neccessary evil to eventually eliminate channeling.
26/01/2011 12:10:54 AM
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"We" don't know of the One Power existing, so obviously it disappears. *NM*
26/01/2011 12:14:19 AM
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Lack of knowledge doesn't mean the One Power vanishes or is destroyed.
26/01/2011 04:03:22 PM
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If OP still existed, you'd still have sparkers even "today". *NM*
26/01/2011 06:34:50 PM
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