[UA] Re: Piromancy and terrorists

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> I got fixated in the taboo of the school, to be true, and overreacted. I
> agree that terrorists doesn't consider themselves evil (read some
> fragments of a terrorist's journal once. She was a depressive and
> deluded woman, but she was not evil) Some of them are simply deluded.
>

Man, if you label terrorists as "deluded" in a game about people who
slash themselves up to perform magic rituals that fly in the face of the
laws of Nature, you need to rearrange your priorities.  There are a lot
of terrorists out there who could make a pretty compelling argument that
they're a lot less "deluded" than someone who buys into the lies of the
powers that be.  For historical examples, take a look at the
"terrorists" that founded the modern states of the USA, France, England,
Cuba, etcetera despite the best efforts of the corrupt aristocracies
that tried to keep them in submission.  If they strike you as deluded or
as "cold-blooded bastards", maybe you should be playing Monopoly instead
of a game that centers around the overthrow of an old guard and the
disintegration of traditional power structures.

Sorry to sound like a flame.  You just touched a nerve with me.  Really,
though, I don't think that that kind of support for the status quo is
going to make for a very interesting UA career.

Matt Norwood



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