Oh I know, I'm right there with you. But I get a level of entertainment out of it.

I'm starting to think we should have all candidates pass a basic leadership and competency challenge to be able to be president. (This is not a series take)

Ah, my bad, I missed that.

And heretics

Given that a large amount of humans in the imperium are esentially slave laborers and menial workers, treated only marginally better than livestock, I don't know about that.

But it also varies quite a bit from world to world. I'm sure some are good about it.

In Snowden's case not really. Him not getting pardoned just means he remains in exile. And I'm not even seeing anything in explicit support of that.

If you can't defend yourself without doing war crimes, you're not defending yourself. You're just using it as an excuse for war crimes.

Sorry, but nothing in there even mentions jail, Assagne, or war crimes.

Link?

From the campaigns I've DMed, I've gone for a bit of an in-between. My primary focus is to have a fun, shared narrative. I'll always let players do stupid things that get them into grave danger. But at most, I'll usually only ever kill a few of the PCs.

If they act carefully, they can avoid getting into that situation all together. If they act stupid, they may have some deaths on their hands, but never a TPK. I don't want that kind of narrative dead end.

The other thing, is that I will never put the players in such a situation in which there isn't a way out of it. Usually this comes down to abusing the rule of cool a bit. Maybe they use a well aimed shatter to collapse a cave and separate themselves from their enemies. Maybe they jump down the cliff into the river below. Maybe the enemies have taken such a beating themselves that they find they aren't willing to fight to the death.

I disagree. Laws aren't always moral. Texas could outlaw donations to the Rainbow Railroad and it would be wrong, the organization should still exist.

But in this case it is pretty clear that the plagiarism machine is in fact, bad and should not exist, at least not in it's current form.