SC - Re: Distress in Trimaris

[david friedman]

At 2:45 PM -0600 2/28/00, Michael F. Gunter wrote:
>I agree that Her Highness' comments could be considered ill-advised.

Cool summer they've been having in Antarctica this year.

>As King I had to sit through boring bardic circles, endless meetings,
>dance recitals, and other things that I would rather be off bashing
>people's
>heads instead of doing.  But the point remains that being Crown means
>that you must do things for the people.

And would announcing that you would prefer that there be less period 
music, poetry, and dance during your reign have met that obligation 
or violated it?

>To tell you the truth, if this trend hadn't started I would probably
>have
>made a similar comment that Her Highness made. I would try to protect
>my populace from a cuisine most of the cooks had little idea about and
>let the cooks at least cook some dish they had a passing familiarity
>with.
>I've had some pretty bad modern feasts as well and I've been hailed as
>as god because I happened to bring a crockpot of beef stroganoff to my
>table.

Then the appropriate response is to object to bad feasts, not to 
period feasts. If you announced that because you disapproved of bad 
feasts you were asking people not to do period feasts, you would be 
claiming that the two were the same. That isn't true, and royalty 
ought not to make false claims.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/