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Originally Posted by Haak
Perhaps I was using the wrong words when I said it was nonsensical. It does make sense on it's own but the problem is that there's a whole other host of factors that aren't being taken into account, such as public perception and what the general perception of the sacrifices they made was. It just doesn't make sense to me that a country could so easily reverse it's position after making so many sacrifices for it. Making a country suffer for it's ideals rarely ever has the effect of making the country drop said ideals. Imo, it's the opposite that usually happens. People hold those ideals even harder and focus blame to the outside threat. The whole thing just feels too forced. I can see the reasoning behind it but not to point where there'd be virtually no challenge and dissent.
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Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor
The way ORB doing things in Destiny is like USA abandoning democracy just to survive from the oppression of a more powerful country.
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Maybe this is where our differences lie. While the show labels it as ideals, it's really more of a foreign policy. This is in no way similar to the USA abandoning democracy.
If it was really highly regarded as democracy is in the USA, Athha wouldn't have surrendered Orb in the first place. He would've destroyed the mass driver but kept fighting.