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  1. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    If you hit back without principles, using the same tactics that you find abhorrent, then you become like them. But if you hold to principles and use honorable tactics, you don't become like them (no matter how much the media might try to spin it otherwise). This idea that you're just supposed to...
  2. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    Because fuck those guys, that's why. I'm being serious. Cain killed Abel to eliminate the evidence that it was possible to do better. This is the essence of envy, and the guiding philosophy of weak men. And the sad truth about libertarianism is: The side that wants to win always defeats the...
  3. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    It's lions and foxes all the way down. Lions are the warrior culture. Foxes are the guys who figure out they can use the system to tell the lions what to do. At least, for as long as the lions actually respect that system and are willing to serve it. Which becomes less and less the case the...
  4. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    Division of labour is a good point. I recall Sparta was only able to become a warrior culture because they had Messenian slaves to do all their farming for them, which freed up the citizen class to spend their time training for war. Feudalism in the middle ages was pretty similar; the peasants...
  5. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    I am getting a vibe of warrior vs soldier equating to that of dealer vs pusher, in Steppenwolf's philosophy (mind, you there is far more to heaven and earth than dreamt of in Steppenwolf's, or Horatio's, or anyone else's philosophy) ~The dealer! The dealer is a man, with the love grass in his...
  6. humon

    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    "Pain and damage don't end the world, or despair or fuckin' beatin's. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back" - Al Swearengen Mal: "You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you...
  7. humon

    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    I'm not sure what the actual question is here. Are we just discussing systems of command and control? Or are we doing sociology? Are we talking about writing fictional hierarchies, or navigating them in the real world? Personally I'm a fan of Jordan Peterson's view of the world, where the...
  8. humon

    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    "Naked force has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion, that violence never solves anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die" - Starship Troopers "Howsoever you are moved, or by whom, though they profess to be kings or...
  9. humon

    What the fuck is convoluted?

    A good story should be like a good scientific hypothesis: It should explain a lot while assuming very little. In narrative terms you could say it should say something about human nature while requiring very little set-up to do it. A plot that is convoluted violates the second part of that...
  10. humon

    What Makes a Pure Evil Villain?

    I wouldn't have necro'd this myself, but since someone else did, I'll add my two cents. I think the issue with anti-villains vs anti-heroes comes down to the Anna Karenina principle. Anna Karenina says that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. So I...
  11. humon

    [Introduction Thread] 'Sup All

    Hello world *Great success* I come to you in peace, from elsewhere on the internet. As a humon, I am eager to engage in social interaction with you, my fellow humons. May our quests be questionable, and our questions be pre-approved. As your Quaestor, I shall manage public funds with the...
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