>>@KRUGER | @ALL

[trample]

With our mission in Paris just about at its limit, I have a few questions to posit to you all. This isn't quite my thing, and I don't mean to sound high and mighty, but you have all piqued my interest.

Firstly, the ideas of liberty and self-government were, indeed, revolutionary at this point in time. They're run of the mill for some, and to others they are representative of an ideal rarely achieved in their own world. I speak this of course to all of us, members of this response team. Do you agree with this revolution? Which is more right, the government of a king, or of a nation's people?

Second, to those whose plans have been a part of the mission, what went through your minds during the planning process? Or during its execution. [ He does not...see the irony behind this phrasing. ] Having failed the mission directives, do you feel in part responsible for whatever consequences arise? I say this both to those that were successful, and those that were not.

And lastly, given the state of affairs, this hardly matters much. It's more of a personal question. Do you think you are free?

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@BUCKET

[lefthandfree]

Free in what sense?

Revolutions are all a mixed bag. They’re never black and white. Governments are the same. You can have an amazing thing, but one bad egg can make it all worthless. None of these are purely “right”, pal.

Some of us are probably more responsible than others for what we’ve changed. Aligning with COST sets us all as culpable though, doesn’t it? At the end of the day.

[byhand]

@KRUGER Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.

@KRUGER Are you much of a reader?

un: @DIEDHARD

[mylawn]

We never figured out who or what threw things off in the first place. Did what we could to correct course. Better question is if it's worth the risk to see how close we can get.

[northerndragon]

>>FROM:@AEGONNER

@KRUGER I've been saying all along that a king should be for his nation's people. If the king is a good king, you shouldn't have to choose. This king is not a good king, but I don't think he deserves death. It would be better to limit his powers.

@KRUGER I am free and I am not free.

[ryuji]

@KRUGER Any life where someone else is makin' the choices for you isn't a free life.

@ACHEELIES

[chariotry]

[ This post is full of hobos. ]

This revolution must have been inevitable, if the state has gotten this bad.

That being said, you have to wonder if whatever change happens will be at all meaningful or lasting. With one man who had all the power dead, won't that leave room for another to take his place?

We failed our mission, but I would argue that the end result will be the same.

un: @MINIMALCAT

[hakanai]

I merely go with the flow of things. Whatever the answers I've spent my life as a stone in the current, moving with stream as it flows... except, of course, when I did not.

Myself and my companion succeeded in changing the mind of Danton and made enough impression for him to wish to continue contact. At that moment in time I was knowingly moving against the flow and personally succeeded, which is something that has never happened before. But that effort did not change the river's course overall.

Yet that course itself was an altered one, from what we are told. So right now I have no answers to give, but a thousand questions of my own. Not a helpful response, is it?

un: @MAXIMUMTIGER

[handtowels]

If people are content, they won't rise up. The real problem here is that the governance of the land is poor under the king's authority.

Of course we bear some responsibility.

I have a place and a set role to fulfil. I don't think that's a bad thing.

un: @BROKEBACKSTAB

[handsomefoil]

@KRUGER I can only agree with whatever limited knowledge I learned in my textbooks
@KRUGER So yes, I agree with this revolution and its outcome
@KRUGER Reaping the benefits of the results and all that
@KRUGER If I want to get more in-depth I suppose I can't agree that there is always going to be a "right" way to govern- just what works best at the time couple with what the nation's people desire. Monarchy worked for a time and then shit got out of hand when people realized that they could fight their miserable situations
@KRUGER Now on to new and better things or what they hope is better

@KRUGER While our plan didn't pan out as we'd wanted, in the end it worked out well for the bloke
@KRUGER Not sure how I feel about King Louis XVI having surviving family members though
@KRUGER That might either come back to bite us in the arse or lead to something we never would've imagined in present day
@KRUGER At the end of the day, we'll just have to see where our actions takes us
@KRUGER That's what history is all about isn't it?

@KRUGER No I don't think I am free
@KRUGER But sometimes I find that brief moment of something similar through small acts of rebellion