HumanSanity wrote:Broadly, the perspective that "regions supporting this will have set a bad precedent" is false because it assumes this precedent is not already set. The Security Council has never been an apolitical institution with the ability to hand down genuine truths. It is, was, and always will be a political institution, and all actors have vested interests in using the advance their interests and as a site of interregional competition. In recent times, examples of this can be found in WALL's opposition to Commend Karputsk due to actions of the nominee against Europeia, the opposition from members of the West Pacific to Commend Andusre, opposition from the South Pacific and many of its allies to Commend Ambrella/Sopo due to the nominee's history of couping the region, quorum raiding of "Liberate The New Inquisition" by TWPAF, etc. Supporters of this resolution, including The North Pacific, are not treading new ground by fiercely advocating for their regional interests in the SC, rather they are taking advantage of the resources and diplomatic connections at their disposal to advance their regional interests.
I don't think anyone is currently trying to argue this is a misuse of the SC on grounds of game mechanics, it's always been a political tool and this is playing perfectly by the game's rules, argument seems to be more that it's unsportsmanlike and unprecedented.
Unsportsmanlike can't be measured but precedent can, so I figure the crux for me is whether this is the first instance of a badge repeal being passed exclusively to try to scrub the prestige of a player on exclusively IC political grounds *outside of repeals based on IC actions going counter to the tone of the badge? We've got Repeal Commend Sedgistan which appears to be a commendable individual getting their badge yeeted for uncommendable IC acts, and we've got any number of OOC badge removals, but neither of those feel the same as this to me? Wherein a condemnable individual has done condemnable things and nothing OOC gross, but is getting their badge yeeted exclusively on the whim of an IC foe by ostensibly uncandid reasoning. That appears to be new, unless I've missed something.