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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4919723" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Excuse men, my good man, but did you just call our king 'short'?</p><p></p><p>But as a practical matter:</p><p></p><p>Cubit = The distance from the King's extend finger, to his elbow.</p><p>Furlong = One ox plow's furrow long.</p><p>Foot = The length of the King's foot.</p><p>Acre = One furlong long and one chain wide.</p><p></p><p>You've got quite the opposite problem of the other fellow I'm talking with. He can't see that 'good' is a requirement of 'good'. You seem to want to insist that 'perfect' is a requirement of 'good'. In the real world, any society - and a lawful society in particular - is going to have an enormous number of artifacts in its law and culture which are legacies of earlier eras and which persist because they've become a part of tradition. Such artifacts tend to persist most strongly ironicly where tradition is most strongly respected. </p><p></p><p>As a practical matter, the Cubit was standardized in (heavily lawful centralized orderly) Egypt, even when its official definition had something to do with the Pharoah. You can't build a pyramid with changable measurements after all. How does a society resolve this problem? With the judicious application of wit, cognitive dissonance, ritual, and tradition. If the cubit is the same size, then King is always the same size. The King is always tall and noble bearing. If you ever measure him and you don't measure his forearm to be a cubit and his foot to be a foot, it's your measurement that is wrong. If you are his tailor, better keep it to yourself that the King is below standard size, and if you are his cobbler don't even think of mentioning the platform shoes he wears to anyone because you aren't just calling the King 'short', you are attacking the very dignity of the State. The King may be benevolent, but you better hope he's around to forgive your slight, because his vassals won't stand for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4919723, member: 4937"] Excuse men, my good man, but did you just call our king 'short'? But as a practical matter: Cubit = The distance from the King's extend finger, to his elbow. Furlong = One ox plow's furrow long. Foot = The length of the King's foot. Acre = One furlong long and one chain wide. You've got quite the opposite problem of the other fellow I'm talking with. He can't see that 'good' is a requirement of 'good'. You seem to want to insist that 'perfect' is a requirement of 'good'. In the real world, any society - and a lawful society in particular - is going to have an enormous number of artifacts in its law and culture which are legacies of earlier eras and which persist because they've become a part of tradition. Such artifacts tend to persist most strongly ironicly where tradition is most strongly respected. As a practical matter, the Cubit was standardized in (heavily lawful centralized orderly) Egypt, even when its official definition had something to do with the Pharoah. You can't build a pyramid with changable measurements after all. How does a society resolve this problem? With the judicious application of wit, cognitive dissonance, ritual, and tradition. If the cubit is the same size, then King is always the same size. The King is always tall and noble bearing. If you ever measure him and you don't measure his forearm to be a cubit and his foot to be a foot, it's your measurement that is wrong. If you are his tailor, better keep it to yourself that the King is below standard size, and if you are his cobbler don't even think of mentioning the platform shoes he wears to anyone because you aren't just calling the King 'short', you are attacking the very dignity of the State. The King may be benevolent, but you better hope he's around to forgive your slight, because his vassals won't stand for it. [/QUOTE]
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