pnakasone wrote:We have to understand that leaders will have to make decisions that will cost lives. They have to keep their eye on the larger goal.
The Beowulf leadership understands from the pure safety stand point that GA should have a strong presence in the Beowulf system. But would it be the smartest thing to do given the larger PR war going on with the Mandarins. They are trying to set up further cracks in the League that they can stick and hammer wedges into. The ultimate goal is to cause the League to break up.
So do they save millions lives now by protecting Beowulf directly but at the potential cost of far more lives later? Considering that if the Mandarins can find a way to hold things together the League has the potential to pound the GA back to stone age. The GA is trying to avoid giving the Mandarins something they can use as a rallying cry to achieve that.
Absolutely. It is coined "Making the big call." Which is why you want to be careful in burning -- or wasting -- your one vote. It is why I
personally will be shockingly surprised if a US presidential candidate who claims to have no belief in God will ever be elected.
No religious arguments please. Candidates are certainly aware of that fact themselves -- to keep any non-beliefs secret. The overall consensus is that one wants one's leaders who have to make the big calls, to make the big calls -- tempered in morals, scruples and values. It isn't that the majority of Christians think that morals, scruples and values are bereft of non-Christians but that they
feel there is a high possibility that it will
surely be found in
professed Christians. Certainly wouldn't want a Hitler making the call.
In Beowulf's case, has a high threat level of impending attack been issued planet wide? Is every citizen given opportunity to
choose to remain on planet?
Or, are just certain people made privy to it? There is a good chance that Honor -- certainly Honor's parents -- have family and friends on Beowulf. Have
they been informed at the exclusion of others?
