02-19-2018, 07:23 AM | #31 | |
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By and large, once a professional code is established, I'd expect the public at large to recognise that it’s what you're likely to get once you hire a member of that profession.
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02-19-2018, 07:30 AM | #32 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Code of Honor
Well, it was more that it was dangerous to be the medic before the Geneva Convention because enemy soldiers would target the medic. In exchange for protection under the Geneva Convention, medics were obligated to treat enemy soldiers. Of course, it is so easy now for nations to label their opposition as enemy combatents, for nations to hire mercenaries to deal with problematic populations of civilians, and for nations to kill civilians with drone platforms that the Geneva Convention might as well be made from tissue paper.
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02-19-2018, 07:56 AM | #33 | |
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02-19-2018, 10:07 AM | #34 | |
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What is true is that it was dangerous to be a medic; simply because there was lots of stuff flying around. What is more interesting is that medics went up in esteem starting as a rough time line with Barron Larrey. Sometimes before they were simply looked on as pig butchers operating on men. Baron Larrey was notable for his mechanical contrivance of an ambulance that had springs to keep it from bouncing and for not giving favors to rank or even which side someone was on. Aside from that the main element he brought to the thing was fanatical discipline about sanitation.
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02-19-2018, 11:45 AM | #35 | |
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I also wanted to note that I've just discovered (although it's been going for a couple of weeks) that there is a Jane Austen inspired RPG on Kickstarter, called Good Society, which strikes me as a singular coincidence. |
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02-19-2018, 12:00 PM | #36 | |
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Someone with Social Stigma (Second-Class Citizen) can pull a Sweet Polly Olliver (may be more familiar to modern US audiences as a Mulan), murder their enemies in secret or otherwise act in any way they damn well please, as long as they manage to keep it a secret from anyone who matters to them socially. A character with Code of Honour (Gentlewoman's Code) in addition to her Social Stigma has none of these opportunities open to her, because they would violate her Code of Honour.
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02-19-2018, 12:12 PM | #37 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Code of Honor
She would also be unable to enjoy sex outside of marriage, would have children as fast as humanly possible (avoiding methods of sexuality that would reduce the likelihood of pregnancy, using female contraception [which there have been methods available since antiquity that are better than nothing], and would protest her husband using condoms [which were available in the 17th century]), and would generally be a vapid ninny.
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02-19-2018, 12:25 PM | #38 | |
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02-19-2018, 01:06 PM | #39 | |
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Look at Gregarious and Autophobia. Would you disallow a PC from taking both even though it's a clear case of double dipping? (just using you as a branch off point Icelander, not arguing against your case, as I agree with it) |
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02-19-2018, 05:19 PM | #40 | |
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But it’s the idea of a Jane Austen heroine being described as a “vapid ninny” that now has me amused.
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