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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 832830" data-attributes="member: 3087">In progressive societies civil rights (which are the legal equivalent to the freewill you're talking about) are pre-emenent. I think that focus on individuals rights is probably epidomized by CG societies like Vesh (or the U.S. in the real world).As you pointed out HF is Lawful. I don't see civil rights as an issue. I think that collective rights and the people of importance within the heirarchy are a priority.I don't see the majority of final forfeiture sentences as being security related. You can do lots of stuff and get cacked without having been there to steal Baryoi's private diary.I think of HF and I think secretive police state. They don't hold open courts, they don't announce who's been arrested or why and they certainly don't tell people what they're doing with the victim now.(Imagine it: Well ma'am, your hustband was put in the golem made out of human remains they sent out on patrol into the Hornsaw last week. Oh, except the eyes. Says here his eyes went to the 3rd circle advanced semenar on scrying. Hmm. Probably used as materials for some spell. Was there anything else I could help you with?).Nope.Not sharing that info with the public.The necromancers rule they city as a bunch of efficent-bordering-on-amoral autocrats. They aren't a political party they're a group of uber-men (for lack of a better term) who can kill with a word and a guesture. Their word is law in Hollowfaust and occasionally bending or breaking a rule they made up isn't going to affect their authority one whit.I guess the difference in points of view is that I see even the more enlightened places in SL as still (out of necessity) extremely 'backward', i.e. totalitarian.</blockquote>

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