LPF week 22 - The Final
Apr. 29th, 2019 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoWe are a land divided. Traditionally, there has only ever been one way to resolve such conflicts - borrow a child from the human world to sort things out. The outside perspective can be refreshing, and it helps simplify the narrative. Ideology A wins out over Ideology B, and then are after the fact labeled as Good and Evil so everyone can feel good about the outcome. The child goes home a little older and a little wiser, with all sorts of character-building experience under their belt. It’s a win-win for everyone involved - or at least for those who triumph, and of course they are the only people who matter anyway.
We’ve run into a bit of a problem with this method, though.
At first, things seemed to be going quite well with out latest visitor. He had met some friendly talking animals, been given an overview of the current political situation, and was just about to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve an artifact of power, when all of a sudden his mother showed up.
There was a great deal of shouting. Foreign adults are, of course, strictly forbidden. She made an enormous fuss about us “abducting” her child, and even after the situation was explained to her she was adamant that her child not go on such a dangerous adventure. Furthermore, she was very displeased by the adult concepts he would be exposed on his coming-of-age journey. Eventually we were forced to send them both home prematurely, and now the poor boy will probably remain a weird loner with no self-confidence, and we’re still stuck with a complex period of social upheavel with no clear resolution.
Now what are we supposed to do? Take a long, hard look what we believe in and then have a mature and reasoned discussion and try to reach a compromise we can all live with? That sounds booooooring.
Maybe we’ll just flip a coin.
We’ve run into a bit of a problem with this method, though.
At first, things seemed to be going quite well with out latest visitor. He had met some friendly talking animals, been given an overview of the current political situation, and was just about to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve an artifact of power, when all of a sudden his mother showed up.
There was a great deal of shouting. Foreign adults are, of course, strictly forbidden. She made an enormous fuss about us “abducting” her child, and even after the situation was explained to her she was adamant that her child not go on such a dangerous adventure. Furthermore, she was very displeased by the adult concepts he would be exposed on his coming-of-age journey. Eventually we were forced to send them both home prematurely, and now the poor boy will probably remain a weird loner with no self-confidence, and we’re still stuck with a complex period of social upheavel with no clear resolution.
Now what are we supposed to do? Take a long, hard look what we believe in and then have a mature and reasoned discussion and try to reach a compromise we can all live with? That sounds booooooring.
Maybe we’ll just flip a coin.
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