[Discuss] Dictator abusing power

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 26 Sep 2006 at 0:56, Dorian Gray wrote:

> 
> On 9/26/06, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote: 
>     > 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. 
> 
> If that were true, we wouldn't have the ability to give tax weightings based on class. Inalienable 
> right is to choose the class, not have immunity to the consequences thereof. Or we wouldn't be 
> able to execute infiltrators based on their being infiltrators (more of an RP device, but the point 
> stands - infiltrators are the most likely class to be executed in). 

Taxing a class in a separate way is not a personal act against a specific 
character. As such, you are not violating their inalienable right of choice of 
class.

As for infiltrators, they are making the same choice as a hero makes: Risking 
character death in exchange for some benefits. All classes have good and bad 
points. As such, you aren't immune from the consequences of changing your 
class. I'm not saying you should be immune to those consequences. Just that 
you can't be directly and personally punished by other characters for making 
the choice of 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. 
> 
> RP catching him a temple. Deal with it with more RP. 

That's a good way of dealing with it. 


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