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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5123581" data-attributes="member: 7883">Those are some thorny questions, and ones which obviously have been considered and discussed for centuries.  I don't claim to have an answer...I'm not a big supporter of tyrants.  But I'm also not a fan of innocent people getting killed...the regular civilians tend to bear a heavy part of the suffering during many conflicts.There is that.....of course, whether a super general in Rome was as politically oriented as one might be nowadays is a good question.  Were Roman generals that political?  Obviously many of them started civil wars by bringing their legions across the Rubicon......but were they politically trained and capable etc.?  Or were they just the equivalent of a military coup nowadays?  In many cases the military in these instances is capable of taking their country by force...but administering it effectively?After this week's episode, I still don't trust Locke.  I'm trying to look at him as maybe the hero, but I just can't trust him.  This Locke creeps me out.  Maybe that's the writer's intent......but I just can't help thinking that it's very important that he does *not* get off the island.  As the smoke monster, how much damage could he do off the island?  He's immortal or very long lived, pretty much unkillable, and doesn't seem to have an compunctions against killing people.The aggravating thing about the show is how nobody will explain what's going on.  The Losties still don't know after all this time, Jacob can't really do anything, etc.Banshee</blockquote>

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