[Mon Mothma isn't here. So Cassian imitates her style as best he can.]
You grant they are not in control. They are perhaps in the same boat as we are having this situation inflicted on them.
Thus, another way of putting it:
In the face of tech they can't explain let alone control, governments may use theater to keep their citizenry calm. Any technique can be misused but it is n ot an inherently inappropriate one. imPorts are highly powered aliens imposed on their nonspacefaring world. Indigenous populations unfamiliar with such diversity and vulnerable to such powers could as easily greet us with hostility. The theater of registration and nominal service seems to play out as mutual protection. Keep the local population calm, and pitch us as welcome and benign. So far that seems to be the only manifest outcome of registration.
"a meager system of incentivization and reward" - more resources and care and quality of life readily supplied and provided than many of us ever were able to scrape for ourselves in our homes. Don't know if they could afford to give us more. Are they obligated to?
"motivated by our own complacency to both sit down and shut up" - you mean live in peace, possibly for the first time?
If you have more (and more compelling) data, why sit on it? Share it now. Dramatic protraction reeks of propaganda. Resenting rules simply because they are rules is not compelling. Presenting hypotheticals, abstract principles, and correlations without causation (connect Debrecen to stated issues please?) does not equal threat or oppression. Minus real threat or oppression, the costs of your insinuations are utterly without redeeming balance.
Your words and obvious intent lead to situations that have high cost in sentient lives—imPort or otherwise. Unless there is even greater need to balance that cost, I question that the motive of instigation is indeed the service of our lives.
If you have concrete grievances, outline them. We can explore actions to take together. Possibly even exhausting options within the system first, before determining if more radical lengths are needed.
It is encouraging to see how many other responders are asking these questions as well. I urge all readers to do so.
[defending a government. Especially one he's still questioning himself. Yavá. If there's any cosmic intent to be had anywhere, it must be an ironic one.
But what he does know is that it takes a lot more, and exhausting more other alternatives first, to make resistance at all worth it.]
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You grant they are not in control. They are perhaps in the same boat as we are having this situation inflicted on them.
Thus, another way of putting it:
In the face of tech they can't explain let alone control, governments may use theater to keep their citizenry calm. Any technique can be misused but it is n ot an inherently inappropriate one. imPorts are highly powered aliens imposed on their nonspacefaring world. Indigenous populations unfamiliar with such diversity and vulnerable to such powers could as easily greet us with hostility. The theater of registration and nominal service seems to play out as mutual protection. Keep the local population calm, and pitch us as welcome and benign. So far that seems to be the only manifest outcome of registration.
"a meager system of incentivization and reward" - more resources and care and quality of life readily supplied and provided than many of us ever were able to scrape for ourselves in our homes. Don't know if they could afford to give us more. Are they obligated to?
"motivated by our own complacency to both sit down and shut up" - you mean live in peace, possibly for the first time?
If you have more (and more compelling) data, why sit on it? Share it now. Dramatic protraction reeks of propaganda. Resenting rules simply because they are rules is not compelling. Presenting hypotheticals, abstract principles, and correlations without causation (connect Debrecen to stated issues please?) does not equal threat or oppression. Minus real threat or oppression, the costs of your insinuations are utterly without redeeming balance.
Your words and obvious intent lead to situations that have high cost in sentient lives—imPort or otherwise. Unless there is even greater need to balance that cost, I question that the motive of instigation is indeed the service of our lives.
If you have concrete grievances, outline them. We can explore actions to take together. Possibly even exhausting options within the system first, before determining if more radical lengths are needed.
It is encouraging to see how many other responders are asking these questions as well. I urge all readers to do so.
[defending a government. Especially one he's still questioning himself. Yavá. If there's any cosmic intent to be had anywhere, it must be an ironic one.
But what he does know is that it takes a lot more, and exhausting more other alternatives first, to make resistance at all worth it.]