Post by SouthWestern Traders on Jul 11, 2018 22:39:53 GMT
While suffering and hardships brought with them obvious challenges, overcoming them had benefits of their own. The broken window fallacy was just that, and breaking windows just to replace them, or digging useless holes, would never be a net benefit. But a window, once broken, still needed fixing and along with it, work could be done to improve things related to it. It would take time and resources, to be certain, and ultimately the net benefit would have been better had Slavers not come along and set fire to things and killed people, but the next best net benefit was restoring what once was.
Guided by local guild council members, the roots of the guilders in Gawant remained strong as ever. No amount of pruning was going to kill this branch of the guild. Inspired by the sacrifices of those who fought to keep their shores free of such pruning, the guilders rallied around their guild councilors and resolved to stand strong and steadfast. They were always going to be the last line of defence, and they were always going to be expected to resist such pruning, just as the sailors ventured out to stop it from happening. With many of the guilders having friends or family serving aboard some of the guild’s vessels, they could hardly find fault with a single, errant Slaver raiding party making it past the naval screens.
And eventually, they were confident, the last of the Slavers would be defeated and in so doing, they would be reduced to petty pirates. It’s not as thieves would completely disappear if large criminal groups were broken up, but the truth was that petty thieves were a lot easier to deal with than organized groups trying to embed themselves into royal courts through strength of arms and illicit gold. With this confidence, they would rebuild.
Guided by local guild council members, the roots of the guilders in Gawant remained strong as ever. No amount of pruning was going to kill this branch of the guild. Inspired by the sacrifices of those who fought to keep their shores free of such pruning, the guilders rallied around their guild councilors and resolved to stand strong and steadfast. They were always going to be the last line of defence, and they were always going to be expected to resist such pruning, just as the sailors ventured out to stop it from happening. With many of the guilders having friends or family serving aboard some of the guild’s vessels, they could hardly find fault with a single, errant Slaver raiding party making it past the naval screens.
And eventually, they were confident, the last of the Slavers would be defeated and in so doing, they would be reduced to petty pirates. It’s not as thieves would completely disappear if large criminal groups were broken up, but the truth was that petty thieves were a lot easier to deal with than organized groups trying to embed themselves into royal courts through strength of arms and illicit gold. With this confidence, they would rebuild.