[Sca-cooks] Responsibilities

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Tara wrote:

> Personally, I consider my obligation to my social community to be pretty
> high, second only to my family community.  I think it's pretty darned
> dishonorable of me to forego a family commitment for social fun.  And,
> if my family can't depend on me, why for goodness sake should my friends
> feel they should?  We're not talking about bailing on a feast to go to a
> three year olds birthday party.  We're talking about important family
> commitments, and I think it's extremely dishonorable, a breach of ones
> word, undependable and a breach of community obligation to stick it to
> your family in favor of a game.  Yes, you've made promises to friends.
> In lighter circumstances, it's dishonorable to break those promises.
> But, for most (though obviously not all) of us, it's far more
> dishonorable to neglect our families and other mundane responsiblities.

Thank you. This is pretty much what I was talking about, also, and my
lack of detail was probably my fault for responding to the specific
statement rather than the entire thread of discussion. Overall, though,
it's a wonderful and honorable thing to be able to meet your SCAdian
responsibilites, any of them that you acknowledge, and failing to meet
those responsibilities is certainly bad, but if you neglect your
real-world responsibilities to uphold your SCAdian ones, that's worse.
"Living the dream" is supposed to enhance real life, not replace it.

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com

"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98