[ANSTHRLD] Conflicting with a non player.

[Kevinkeary]

Good point. I'd say "well said" but I unfortunately have to object slightly to the wording.



In the US, at least, we do not have rights that come from our government. We have them naturally, or if you prefer, from The Creator. The Constitution and derivative works list a subset of those rights that the government is forbidden to interfere with, but they neither imply they were granted by the government established by that Constitution nor that they are a complete list of our natural rights.

'Rights' established by contract are a bit different, DO come from the contract, whether it's written or verbal, and the rights of an armiger to bear distinct arms do come under this category. But they are still a right, and one is never wrong in exercising their right. That's what the word means.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Eldwin Nightowl <eldwin at loveshade.org>
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA Inc.Heralds List <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Conflicting with a non player.


Modar, thanks for posting that. A right that someone cannot freely exercise is 
ot a true right.  That applies whether it comes from their government or the 
CA.

..
Greetings from Modar!
...
ne thing that I would remind people to remember is that it is the right of a 
erson with a registered design to refuse to allow another person to conflict 
ith their armory (or name).  There can be any number of reasons a person might 
efuse to allow the conflict.  And if a person does refuse, that is okay.  

nfortunately I've seen a couple of cases where a person was asked to grant 
ermission to conflict and after much debating, declined to allow it, and then 
hey suffered for it. In one instant the person was castigated for being 
ncourteous and un-Peer-like. In the other instance the person was informed they 
ere too insular and didn't care about anyone outside their own group. 

lease keep in mind that wishing to retain the distinction between designs that 
he RfS allows does not make a armiger a bad person.

-Modar