On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:32:00PM -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: (snip) > >I did like the moral tone (which reminded me of Antoly<sp> > >in the musical Chess), but I didn't much care for the way > >the Emperor was carrying out his unification. Nice idea, > >lousy execution. > > But I thought that *was* the moral - since his intentions were > sufficiently "noble", implementing them was worth any number of > massacres. I agree - it was a "we are going to make all of you stop skirmishing with each other by *conquering* you and partially destroying your native culture by forcing you to adopt another language" tone. Unity over freedom. Not suprising, coming from China. Kat