I think that would be a mistake, Kringalia. The region has enforced the law via "amnesty + acknowledgement of culpability" before: Brave Little Toaster - and, of course, most of the people who supported Brave Little Toaster, once again, were involved with this coup. We saw what happened with BLT: Belschaft promptly admitted culpability and the Assembly, feeling sympathetic, recalled him from his positions, but did not pursue him in court. After a few months passed, Belschaft then claimed he did not do anything wrong with BLT - so the Cabinet banned him for being a Security Threat - and the Assembly upheld the ban, especially after learning Belschaft had attempted to blackmail the delegate. Now Belschaft has assisted Hileville in couping the region - once more asking for amnesty provided he acknowledges his guilt - and then what? A few months later he'll claim he did nothing wrong. His coup wasn't really a coup, "I negotiated the peace deal!" etc.
At some point, if we want a stable region, somebody has to start taking real responsibility for their actions. The Rule of Sympathy has not been a strong alternative to the Rule of Law here. We have to stop administered justice through some psycho "healing circle" where everyone the region feels sorry for shares the blame for their offenses with the people who the region doesn't particularly like and all of the people that the region doesn't particularly like faces some sort of weird Robocop style justice - "he said he's sorry, that's good enough" has not exactly worked for us. Sympathy simply doesn't provide the consistency that the law can in sentencing and administrating justice.
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2016, 09:00 PM by Unibot.)
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