We Do Not Kneel

[Infected Mushroom]

You are the leader of a revolutionary cause or an ideology you really believe in.

Your people have fought valiantly but you as the leader, have been captured.

You are told by the dictatorship government that if you, as the leader of your cause, kneel and surrender your people over to the government, your life will be spared and everyone involved in the resistance will be pardoned. However, you and your followers will be expected to fight as front-line soldiers in a foreign war for the benefit of the dictatorship.

If you do not kneel, they will sentence you to die in a very unpleasant manner in front of your followers.

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I would not kneel. We do not kneel.

There are some things more important than life and death such as belief in Freedom and Honor. We only have a limited number of days to make a real difference and to take a stand in this world. It is better to leave the world with some dignity than to betray your ideals.

Death is not an easy thing to face and neither is pain, but it's a true test of character.

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Do you kneel? Why or why not? How would you justify your decision?

[Cosedonia]

woah..deep..

[United Russian Soviet States]

I would not kneel.

[Grand Calvert]

If the leader of a cause gives up, then almost everyone else in the cause will give up.

[The Huskar Social Union]

...

Well i totally don't know what this was inspired by.

Nope not at all.

In the end, i dont know, depends on how many peoples lives where at stake.

[Psuedopolis]

I wouldn't go down without a fight!

I believe the phrase is "NUTS!"

[Infected Mushroom]

...

Well i totally don't know what this was inspired by.

Nope not at all.

In the end, i dont know, depends on how many peoples lives where at stake.

lots of lives are stake

we're at war

[Wallenburg]

This essentially happened in our nation's history. Revolutionary leader Nathan Reed was captured and ordered to surrender himself and his cause to the Empire of Wallenburg. Reed refused and was forced onto the battlefront unarmed, where he was mowed down by a Castillian machine gun.

He now has a statue in Independence Square. Long live the Revolution.

[Infected Mushroom]

This essentially happened in our nation's history. Revolutionary leader Nathan Reed was captured and ordered to surrender himself and his cause to the Empire of Wallenburg. Reed refused and was forced onto the battlefront unarmed, where he was mowed down by a Castillian machine gun.

He now has a statue in Independence Square. Long live the Revolution.

I see...

interesting...

[The Huskar Social Union]

...

Well i totally don't know what this was inspired by.

Nope not at all.

In the end, i dont know, depends on how many peoples lives where at stake.

lots of lives are stake

we're at war

Then again we can all say we would die for are cause as much as we would like, but in the end alot of us would not know what we would do unless we were actually in that situation directly. So again i dont know, i would have to go through all of this fighting and turmoil myself, experience the loss and the battles, see how its affected others (not just my own but those not involved as well as the enemy) and decide if its worth continuing, or if submitting will be better in the long run. As well as what the other way this Dictatorship is involved in is about.

[Paper Sprite]

Kneel and be really really shit in the foreign war.

In your face, dictator.

[Valloria]

The quest of life is to avoid pain. Everything we do is to avoid pain. We work to avoid the pain of homelessness and hunger. We lie to each other to avoid the pain of heartbreak and emotional misunderstanding. We lie to ourselves to ignore the pain caused by heartbreak and emotional misunderstanding. There is nothing but pain in this world, and as sentient beings, we do our best to avoid it ourselves at all costs. And if we can't avoid it, we do our best to block it out. If we fail, we become depressed. If we fail depression, we kill ourselves to end the pain.

Death by torture is not a pleasant way to go. Thus, I opt to kneel. To save my own skin, albeit dishonorable. But what is honor if there is no-one to have it. I'd rather save the lives of all those within my movement by kneeling than watch them all die by not doing so.

[Mefpan]

Because dictatorships are known for staying true to their promises.

You know how that fighting in a foreign war in exchange for your life would look? Penal batallions. Shittiest equipment there is, hardest assignments there are. gg no re

fuck kneeling

[Valloria]

Because dictatorships are known for staying true to their promises.

You know how that fighting in a foreign war in exchange for your life would look? Penal batallions. Shittiest equipment there is, hardest assignments there are. gg no re

fuck kneeling

This is a kingdom led by Stannis Baratheon, if you didn't notice.

[New Skaaneland]

I think this is situational. Right now there seems to be things worth dying for and fewer things to live for, but even if one already made the choice of death there could be more important things to die for than the one closest at hand.. and things keep changing so quickly, in ways which reasonably couldn't have happened. It's all making me very confused.

[Mefpan]

Because dictatorships are known for staying true to their promises.

You know how that fighting in a foreign war in exchange for your life would look? Penal batallions. Shittiest equipment there is, hardest assignments there are. gg no re

fuck kneeling

This is a kingdom led by Stannis Baratheon, if you didn't notice.

I recognize the GoT reference, but other than that my entire knowledge ranges from everyone of actual political importance in GoT being an asshole at best or a horrible asshole at worst.

[Spoder]

Aegon the Conqueror wasn't a complete asshole.

And the difference is that Torrhen had a shitton of people to look after and this dictator's power could not be matched in any way.

[Valloria]

This is a kingdom led by Stannis Baratheon, if you didn't notice.

I recognize the GoT reference, but other than that my entire knowledge ranges from everyone of actual political importance in GoT being an asshole at best or a horrible asshole at worst.

Stannis is the Mannis

[Esternial]

"Bending the knee" is the hip term these days, grandpa.

Nice GoT topic, though.

[Caribica]

Better to die on my feet than live on my knees.
Plus, I get to be a martyr, which is really cool.

[Scepez]

If a revolution or uprising is what the people truly want, it can succeed without a leader, so viva la revolución.

Or something.

[The Liberated Territories]

I'll kneel to no tyrant! Except my mother.

[Esternial]

Better to die on my feet than live on my knees.
Plus, I get to be a martyr, which is really cool.

Yes, having your face end up on a t shirt, mugs and eventually being associated with cannabis because that's also kinda sorta related to your act of rebellion is totes cool.

[Esternial]

I would not kneel. We do not kneel.

There are some things more important than life and death such as belief in Freedom and Honor. We only have a limited number of days to make a real difference and to take a stand in this world. It is better to leave the world with some dignity than to betray your ideals.

Death is not an easy thing to face and neither is pain, but it's a true test of character.

Or be smart, kneel, and then continue with whatever you were doing once you've been released.

Dying for your ideals is cools and all, but I'd rather weasel out on death and continue my fight than be an idiot and die because I've got some Sean Bean complex.

[Sanctissima]

You are the leader of a revolutionary cause or an ideology you really believe in.

Your people have fought valiantly but you as the leader, have been captured.

You are told by the dictatorship government that if you, as the leader of your cause, kneel and surrender your people over to the government, your life will be spared and everyone involved in the resistance will be pardoned. However, you and your followers will be expected to fight as front-line soldiers in a foreign war for the benefit of the dictatorship.

If you do not kneel, they will sentence you to die in a very unpleasant manner in front of your followers.

_____________

I would not kneel. We do not kneel.

There are some things more important than life and death such as belief in Freedom and Honor. We only have a limited number of days to make a real difference and to take a stand in this world. It is better to leave the world with some dignity than to betray your ideals.

Death is not an easy thing to face and neither is pain, but it's a true test of character.

_____________

Do you kneel? Why or why not? How would you justify your decision?

Depends.

If the revolutionaries had a pretty good chance of succeeding without me, I wouldn't kneel.

If we were just a small ragtag group, I'd kneel, but when we made it to the enemy frontline I'd make an alliance with them, and continue fighting against the dictatorial government.