Bloodweaver, on 26 June 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:
Petroff, if you have a pet canine, and it becomes rabid, do you attempt to instruct it in "the proper way of thinking?" Or do you take it out back and blow its brains out? Do not mistake foolishness for mercy.
Spheroids are not helpless. They are not victims of anything but their own vices. They are not disadvantaged - they are ILL. They are demented. Impure. Contaminated. The disease that afflicts them must be excised, lest it wash upon our own shores. Serendipity befell us in spades, for we had the blind luck of having a Kerensky lead us, and of being given the opportunity for an Exodus, both of which came just as the worlds we left behind chose to abandon all hope and glorify baseness over virtue.
We can not, nay, MUST not, rely on fickle fortune to bless us with such unmitigated providence yet again. Our destiny demands this of us. No qualms, no half-taken measures, and no allowance for failure. And, above all, no tacit approval of the Spheroids' ways by abstaining from the correction thereof. The brutes will learn or die. This is the way of things.
If you have a member of a sibko which believes something incorrectly do you purge it? Do you completely remove it from existence or do you attempt to reeducate it , make sure it learns the proper way and if failing that send it to a lower caste? The spheroids leaders must be punished but almost all of them are little more than sheep at this point, we will take these sheep and become their shepherds, some may wish to fight against the truth of the clans but you do not decimate the herd for the wrongs of a few, if necessary some are culled to keep the flock safe but you Crusaders use violence as a threat, a promise, a constant part of their lives when they are largely simple laborers, not warriors. Death will happen, this is inevitable with such a drastic change but it must be simple. clean, and a consequence used only on those responsible in a measured amount. Give most of the people the illusion of freedoms they want and they will fall in line willingly, to them nothing will change but the flags over their capitols.
If you promise death, rain fire down then it will harden the hearts of every man capable of holding a rifle while if we do not waste live, take measured steps to help the conquered spheroids then they will in time welcome us and the utopia we bring to them with the return of the Star League. For it is both our duty and our destiny to bring about the Star league once more but if in the process of doing so we destroy all the Star league once stood for then the point is wasted and as clanners nothing can be wasted.