Re: Assassins

[edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com]

Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com

> > > %> Call U.B.A.G.  Where we enjoy waste removal.
> > > %> We kill to please our costomers.
> > >
> > > VERY ill-advised posting.  I was under the impression that
> > > assassins had been outlawed by the Crowns of Atlantia some
> > > years ago.....
> >
> >???? Would there have ever been a time when assassins were IN-LAWED ????
> >
> >Besides, as long as they dress in period cloths, and behave themselves at
> >events, you can't really outlaw anygne.
>
> No one has outlawed anyone.  I've not read that anyone even suggested
> outlawing anyone.  What we are discussing is an activity, not the persons
> practicing it.

And yet it happened.
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{}   I read your post with the explanation and I still feel assassination is
{}   inappropriate in the SCA.
{}
{} Exactly so.  Consider, for example, what the end result would have been of
{} such behavior in period.

Do you mean, "Consider how history would have been different if there
had been such a thing as assassination at the time of Julius Caesar,
or Roger de la Flor, or Macbeth"?

{} I was writing to someone else, on another list, about the press, but I think
{} it fits here.  Behavior which uses other folks as background or as objects,
{} is impolite.  If your assasination game uses other folks as unwilling
{} backdrops, it may not be appreciated.

Come to think of it, a lot of people thought it was inapproriate recently
when postings urged heraldic display to make more colorful backdrops.

{} Not to mention all the heebie-jeebies people get with the moral dimension.

We are talking about _mock_ assassinations here, aren't we?
I certainly don't want _actual_ assassinations at events, but
then, I don't want an _actual_ duel to the utterance at Crown.

-- Alfredo
 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
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