[Discuss] Dictator abusing power

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 24 Sep 2006 at 7:08, Alex Davies wrote:

> >From: Mark Moss <battlemaster at mmoss.org>
> >
> >On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 20:46 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > > You have a right to choose your class, you don't have a right to
> > > choose your realm. Banning priests doesn't stop them being priests, it
> > > just stops them being in your realm.
> >
> >The same could be said for any class.  I don't see any reason why
> >banning a priest for being a priest would have different consequences
> >for banning a hero for being a hero.
> 
> Ban a hero for saying "I don;t want your death on my conscience" instead, 
> and would that be a breach of inalienable right?

Of course it would. You are, in effect, banning a character for being a hero. 
Remember that your characters don't know they can't die unless they decide to 
be a "hero". 

> I thought the right covered 
> choosing your class, not the consequences thereof (hence why you can assign 
> different tax points to each class).

Same thing. If you take any action against a character based on his choice of 
class, you are violating that person's inalienable rights.

> >You can probably ban a priest for doing priestly things, but I'd make it
> >absolutely clear that the priest was banned for specific actions rather
> >that simply for being a priest.
> 
> I'd just ban him for being openly a member of a religion.

How would you know that he's a member of a religion? Remember that classes 
are an OOC game mechanic. They should be ignored in strictly IC 
conversations. Characters shouldn't even have a concept of a character's class.

The character could RP himself as not being a priest. Unless he was caught red-
handed doing something priestly, how would you know he was a priest? He 
could pretend to be something else. A burocrat or an infiltrator. I'm not sure 
how he would do that, and he couldn't just come out and *say* he was a buro 
or infil, as that is again an OOC thing. I don't know a lot about priests, so I 
don't know if doing priestly things results in region reports being generated to 
the realm. How would you catch him? I have no idea.



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