Gift fic 19 for Immora.
Nov. 19th, 2007 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosieknightI'm feeling a bit low on inspiration today. However, I do like how this fic turned out.
(Inspired by "Problems with Authority" by Stretch from the tf2007fun lj community. Edit: Now with permission to play in her sand box!)
"Do you realize most of the decisions in the world are made by those who'll feel little to none of the impact of their rulings?
It's a frightening idea. And once you have that revelation, the knowledge never really releases you.
Don't believe me? Let's look at history.
World War I had generals who'd never even seen a machine gun in action ordering thousands of soldiers into range of that weapon to "capture" another yard or so. The troops were cut down in swaths; leaving only the lucky to survive to retreat to the very trenches they'd just left. And this didn't happen once or twice, these sort of pushes were common during the first years of the War!
And don't get me started on the division of Africa, the creation of the Armistice of World War I, or the Yalta conference!
On a more positive note, the decision to grant women suffrage was made by men. Granted, the southern states in the United States only granted women the vote in an attempt to counter the votes of the male freedmen. Still, very few men were directly affected by their wives, sisters, daughters, and nieces being able to vote in elections.
There's also the abolition of slavery, the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America, and Civil Rights Amendment in the positive examples of this phenomena.
Now, keeping in mind all this background information, I want you gentlemen to explain to me just why you feel entitled to make decisions that affect the Autobots - members of an autonomous, sentient, alien race- without at least one of them present to offer their opinions, grievances, desires, compromises, and give them a chance to support or reject whatever plans all of you come up with?
Well, sirs?"
End.
(Inspired by "Problems with Authority" by Stretch from the tf2007fun lj community. Edit: Now with permission to play in her sand box!)
"Do you realize most of the decisions in the world are made by those who'll feel little to none of the impact of their rulings?
It's a frightening idea. And once you have that revelation, the knowledge never really releases you.
Don't believe me? Let's look at history.
World War I had generals who'd never even seen a machine gun in action ordering thousands of soldiers into range of that weapon to "capture" another yard or so. The troops were cut down in swaths; leaving only the lucky to survive to retreat to the very trenches they'd just left. And this didn't happen once or twice, these sort of pushes were common during the first years of the War!
And don't get me started on the division of Africa, the creation of the Armistice of World War I, or the Yalta conference!
On a more positive note, the decision to grant women suffrage was made by men. Granted, the southern states in the United States only granted women the vote in an attempt to counter the votes of the male freedmen. Still, very few men were directly affected by their wives, sisters, daughters, and nieces being able to vote in elections.
There's also the abolition of slavery, the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America, and Civil Rights Amendment in the positive examples of this phenomena.
Now, keeping in mind all this background information, I want you gentlemen to explain to me just why you feel entitled to make decisions that affect the Autobots - members of an autonomous, sentient, alien race- without at least one of them present to offer their opinions, grievances, desires, compromises, and give them a chance to support or reject whatever plans all of you come up with?
Well, sirs?"
End.
