[Dragaera] Unstoppable Force vs Immovable Object

[Howard Brazee]

On 9:55 AM Scott Schultz wrote:
>  In practice, we've seen the Orb abused from both sides, of course.
>  You just
>  have to be selective about the questions you ask and/or the answers
>  that you
>  give. Regardless, an Emperor who violated the sanctity of the Orb's
>  "blessing", since no better word comes to mind, is an Emperor who (no
>  matter
>  how well justified in his own mind) has put himself and his own
>  interests
>  above that of neutral justice and "incontrovertible" truth. Such an
>  Emperor
>  would find himself having to deal with a lot of flak from the Houses,
>  I'd
>  think, because allowing him to get away with it would be to set some
>  unhappy precedents.

There's a long history in our world of the crown bending the rules for 
what it thinks is the greater good.    While we need to fight that as we 
can, sometimes we should lose that fight.