“The Frenzy” is basically Sarnothi Hell. It’s been mentioned before, but thought I’d throw a reminder out there.
It's both Hell and The Devil, really. Pleasant fellows. They require me to say that.
“The Frenzy” is basically Sarnothi Hell. It’s been mentioned before, but thought I’d throw a reminder out there.
Ohhhh Scar.
Oh, oh dear, this isn’t going to be good….
Ohhhhh….. Nooooo….. 😣
I was close when I made my Soylent Green joke…
No wonder Plo Quar almost killed him. I wonder how much *her* bounty was?
As bad as this is, it is more pragmatic than I thought it would be. It is also sort of interesting, since I wonder if it had been nazis, or sympathizers, that were escaping their past life on a farm and then wanting to leave farther, would we have as much sympathy for the people trying to leave and anger against Scar? Not defending his actions, but it is interesting how perception makes a difference in how we view someone’s actions.
Money, the root of all evil.
Love of money, is the root of all evil
Pretty sure it’s “Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
Since, y’know, people do all sorts of horrible things for reasons other than money. Don’t think creepy stalkers and abusive boyfriends and unfettered scientific curiosity a la Joseph Mengele are motivated primarily by the love of money.
So I looked it up and you’re both right — The quote is 1 Timothy 6:10, which in the King James Version is “For the love of money is the root of all evil” but in the New King James is “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil” and most other translations have some variation on “kinds of evil” in them. The KJV is very popular and was The Version for a bit of history, but it’s not actually the most accurate translation.
Oh no. Scar. Betraying the people you protected? Good lord.
I recall about 25 years ago, my step Dad was dying from terminal cancer. My Mother was working two jobs. My step Fathers kids were “visiting” to help take care of their Dad.
He was in almost constant pain and we couldn’t figure out why, until he died and his kids left.. we found countless empty bottles of his medication in their room. They had been stealing their dying Father’s pain medication.
I hated that man. But I would have never even consider denying him his pills. And I would have never considered turning in refugees. Not even if it cost me my own life.
Given that Scar was Plo Quar’s lover, it’s a wonder she didn’t blast him in a more sensitive place. This is worse than the split between Blue and Gray in the Civil War.
At the risk of being Blase, who’s to say she didn’t?
…Also, if you’re referencing the American Civil War, no. No it’s not. There are family’s that are still fighting over that split 200 years later. People are -still- being disowned for realizing that their side was wrong for one reason or another in -either- direction (There are certain towns where saying anything negative about Robert E. Lee is legitimate reason for being lynched and the sheriff would just mark it as suicide, in spite of the fact you were sliced apart)
It’s definitely a bad split, but there’s some real world equivalent splits we can actually draw on that this definitely was much closer to, such as what it actually almost feels like it’s referencing, the Nika Revolt, (Reign of Justinian), where six sports stars of the only two teams of chariot racers were scheduled to be executed for committing murder and other high crimes, and the rope snapped saving two of them. These two then were saved as they were gasping and trying to stand by monks. The monks then dragged them to their church. The Monks then barred their church to the crowds.
Justinian ruled that the men do not receive clemency just because of a failed execution. The populace took it poorly. Justinian eventually changed his mind and almost submitted. The populace demanded his crown, the heads of multiple higher members of state who wouldn’t really have been relevant to them, and other such high and mighty claims that sounded awfully like they’d been seeded in by the nobility. Justinian ordered the military to decimate the populace after much deliberation and considering leaving, at the instruction of his wife Theodora.
The town ran red with blood and numerous buildings were completely destroyed by this incident. Would you have supported a person who considered rioting, who set one of the greatest cities on the world, one of the only places you could live, because traveling from city to city is deadly, ablaze…would you have saved them? Would you have protected them from the law, from those who wanted vengeance for the damage done to them personally? Just because they rebelled? Just because they realized they couldn’t return to that life? Would you have presented clemency?
…I’m not sure I would. I’m not sure I could. Regardless of if I realized the person was being used as a patsy for the nobility and it really should be the nobles fault…I’m not sure I -could- forgive someone who had destroyed a city, killed innocents on their own, and then claimed they should be forgiven just because it was the heat of the moment, just because they were fans of the person doomed…
Just listened to the NPR “On The Brain” about the Heat of the Moment logic, why people do stooopit things ‘when the emotions run high’. People do stuff that they can’t conceive of when calmed down; do stuff they are incapable of understanding when using cool logic.