On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > > > >I don't see "sometime in the last 250 years" as any sort of evidence > >for the Skinter (what's below hypothesis?) > > Suggestion? > Notion? > Idea? > Pulled-from-out-of-arse wild speculation? I'm looking for some philosophy-of-science-blessed term, if possible with a Greek root.... > > Finally note that K has plenty of dealings with Dragons in the > >Vladiad, and there's a significant lack of him getting hacked to > >death on sight. > > But why would anyone hack him to death? Whatever he did may have been > contemptible, and un-Dragon-like, but that doesn't mean that it would > be worth killing him for... I'm arguing against the Skinter-as-Kragar idea here. > I just re-read in LoCB (chap. 53, pg 237) where Aerich is explaining > means & ends, and states that what Skinter is doing - attacking the > Empire - is the most terrible moral crime there is, which supports > whoever suggested that upthread. Which strongly implies that Skinter > will be executed when this is all over. Probably me, I'm fanatically opposed to this for some reason, even though I like my Sethra-and-Aliera-killed-Tortaalik-and-smeared-Mario idea, which is probably more of an affront to SKZB. > However, I note while reading it that the phrase "grave moral crime" > could just as easily apply to Adron e'Kieron's hissy-cow. And again, > this is a /Lyorn's/ POV; if Dragons cared about moral justification, > well, they would fight a great deal less, I nearly think. It's not clear to me that Aerich considered Adron to be a war criminal. Anyway, crime or no, I think a lot of Dzurs and just random hotheads would want a piece of Skinter, and not anything external.