Richard Suitor wrote: > I really don't want to jump on the Mario=Kragar bandwagon, but Adron's > disaster wasn't really Adron's disaster - it was Adron, Aliera and Mario's > disaster. And don't forget the emperor. If he hadn't been such a putz, Adron would never have had to do it, nor would Mario be trying to kill him. Right. :-) Mario and Aliera are only part of the disaster in the sense that more than one thing went wrong at a time. But IMHO, it's Adron's disaster. He's the one who chose to use an incredibly powerful weapon that he couldn't fully control. Analogy is always suspect, but here's one I think works. Someone cranks a car up to 100MPH in a residential area, swerves to miss an unleashed dog while his cellphone rings, and hits a kid on a bike. It's his, the dogs owners, the callers, and the kids accident. Police, prosecutors, judges, juries, and bereaved parents have been notably unsympathetic to this argument. -- ``You gotta distinguish between telling a tale for amusement, as in "Well, there I was facing down the crowds at Riotcon...", and telling it for the record, as in "Well, you see, officer, it happened like this...". (Actually, that might not be the best example.)'' -- Chris Clayton, in private email