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That doesn't sound like a very good precedent. Steal someone's wallet, throw away a single coin, and now they no longer have any claim over it and it's rightful
by jstanley 5y ago
That doesn't sound like a very good precedent. Steal someone's wallet, throw away a single coin, and now they no longer have any claim over it and it's rightfully yours?
- scrollaway 5y agoGood leaders know how to make practical, human-centric decisions. Forgetting the human by hyperrationalizing, creating rules and following them too strictly etc is a good way to become an absolute ass of a person. There are fields that reward that type of thinking though and i recommend going into game design for example if you want to learn how to create fair rulesets that "remember the human" (or rather, put the player's enjoyment of the game as a priority).
- trabant00 5y agoThe decision was not meant to be fair or rational, but to find some clever pretext to punish the greedy noble and reward the honest peasant. The story is fiction of course, Vlad would not have presided over so small issues. The unjust nobles and noble peasants are also stereotypes of popular stories like this.
- jstanley 5y ago> The decision was not meant to be fair or rational, but to find some clever pretext to punish the greedy noble and reward the honest peasant. Right, and this isn't how the decision should be made. He shouldn't be trying to find a clever pretext to punish the person he doesn't like and reward the one he likes! Those kind of shenanigans rightly destroy the public's trust in the justice system.
- trabant00 5y agoAre you complaining that in the children books they kill the evil witch without a trial? Also what justice system? There was no such thing at the time. Might was right in the purest form possible. PS: are you making fun of me?
- ASalazarMX 5y agoIt's not DnD. Vlad likely decided who was the liar based on context.