Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24376253-20140817142759/@comment-5543592-20140823031419

(While I agree with many of your points and certainly the second to last paragraph (although that gets into globalization which is a whole other discusion) I was just trying to point out that corruption can happen outside of a democracy.  While your examples are good (although I'd like to add that pre-Mongol Chinese dynasties did a lot of great stuff aswell), you can't honestly consider some of the nondemocractic nations of pre-Modern Democratic times (for lack of a better term) to have a "communal spirit."  For example, the Persian Empire under Xarses.  Used an army of 1 million slaves to attack Athens just because the Greeks were resposible for the burning of his capital city thirty years ago, a war waged for nothing but personal pleasure.  And the Athenians had done so in defense of allies that the Persians were conquering.

Charles V's Spanish invasion of Britian. He destroyed several hundred Spanish ships and backrupted Spain just because Elizabeth converted Britian to Protestantism. A war waged for nothing but vanity and pointless killing.

The way I see, in the course of human history, it can go either way.)

Zue didn't know what he felt. A man willing to fight for a noble dream. People willing to change the world, just because they'd seen the worst it could offer. Most would've cowarded and hid after what these two had experienced. Compassion and an honor at being choosen suddenly filled his heart, an emotion he didn't often feel.

"Very well.  I'm on board.  What would you have me do?"