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Old 2007-09-03, 15:51   Link #16
ipernorris
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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh View Post
Wow. Good men do die in ZnT.

Though I can't exactly agree with burning a whole village just because it has the plague. Setting up quarantine procedures? Sure. Burning the corpses and houses? Right on.

But burning people alive on some vague suspicion there's a plague around? Madness. And not the "this is Sparta" kind.


I also wonder about Colbert's pacifism. Just because he, in the name of military discipline, committed a monstrous act, doesn't mean every soldier is a monster. I prefer a phrase from Bujold's Winterfair Gift:
In Middle Age they didn't have the concept of quarantine, do you know?
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