On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:24:47 -0400, Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote: >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. And so am I. But Aliera was Adron's daughter, protective of him, and trying to help him - but she wound up having the Emperor killed at exactly the wrong time. I could imagine that affecting *her* outlook, which was my point - I agree that it is still Adron's disaster to everyone else. To carry your analogy further, the car driver's daughter is out walking a vicious dog, sees Daddy's enemy and tells the dog to sic 'em, and that's what triggers the accident. She's going to have some internal conflicts to straighten out. Daddy still loses the court case. But I'm not pushing the overall argument, Mario=Kragar. It's an interesting concept to keep in one of the back files . . . Richard