Re: [spoon-discuss] Be careful what you wish for

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just got this on the thermo list. Perhaps we should speculate less freely? 
> The
> goal isn't to subjugate other nomics. At least, not as far as I know.
-That /was/ pure speculation, whatever it may look like. I'm a cynic who 
believes that if you expect the worst, you'll only get pleasant surprises. 
So I opened the possibility of war. It has happened and will happen. I doubt 
it will happen between us and Thermo. We seem to like them. Granted, past 
allies have become future enemies, but we're not that's neither here nor 
there, wouldn't you all agree? Anyway, we also heavily discussed trade and 
alliances, did we not? The trade idea has gone through several incarnations 
at this point. The war idea is not in the Nomic Market proposal anywhere, 
funny how that works. I can't imagine how Thermo could find this to be so 
dangerous. We only discussed an interesting thought experiment. "How /do/ 
Nomics fight?" It's a damn good question, akin to "how do you make a truly 
immutable rule?" We discussed that, too, but no one has accused us of trying 
to create an "immutability gap."

What I want to know is why Thermo players trust us so little, and why, given 
that they do not trust us implicitly, they feel that we should trust them. 
This is a flegling linkage. There will be wariness until it becomes 
cemented. This is news?-

[[BvS]]

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