Talk:Autonomy Debates/@comment-1401418-20110515234655

"It's always nice to see a scholar lose any semblance of professionalism or impartiality to tout their own sadly-flawed view of the situation. Setting aside the fact that far from being the unassailable bastion of perfect logic and evidence that you claim it to be, Alma's postulations have since been discounted and countered by numerous scholars and philosophers, both Alma's contemporaries and successors, including Jacob Streinson, Bishop Nathaniel Hronst, and Anna von Kennat herself; setting aside the fact that Dewan, far from being populated by the religion-blinded barbarians you're so happy to paint them as in your myopia, had a significantly higher proportion of technically- and academically-skilled citizens that weren't willing to take the Truth on faith compared to Kennat's primarily miner and craftsman population; setting aside the fact that Prannetic, who you are so ready to put on a pedestal for standing up against the unwashed masses in the defense of perfect truth, starved his people by putting principle ahead of those he was charged with providing for; the simple fact of the matter is that "Dewanian history makes little mention of this atrocity" because the situation was so much more nuanced than you present it. The Autonomy Debates were certainly an important contributor to the year-long civil war, but served more as a flash point than the true cause of the situation. Most people these days are all too happy to forget about the three years prior to the Debates wherein Prannet and his counterpart Governor Stranwick were involved in a lengthy power struggle over the increasingly-disparate wealths of the twin cities; to forget the persistent attempts at disenfranchisement the Church of Blue Stars suffered at the hands of the Philosophical Bureau; to forget the Butter Riots and their hand in raising tensions among the populace. The slaughter in terminoctis was not the indiscriminate killing of blood-crazed barbarians, but the lashing out of a disenfranchised population against those who had sought to destroy both their way of life and their religion. I'm sure you wouldn't imply that the events of -889 in Solaria were a bunch of uneducated monsters killing for their primitive beliefs, but then, that wouldn't deify your great philosopher or demonize those who disagree with you.

Frankly, except by paring it down to the barest facts (which would leave it approximately eight words long), this work is Kennacian-apologist tripe, and is a holdover from the exact attitudes that lead to so much tragedy in the first place."

-XQM