Thread:High Prince Imrahil/@comment-26210095-20160718114659/@comment-26295802-20160718214531

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

High Prince Imrahil wrote:

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Of the people of the nation, but not of the actions that nation took which shaped what it did - and thus how it should be viewed. If you kill someone (illegally), but think killing is wrong - yet were trying to kill them - you're no less a murderer. That depends on how you define a nation. A nation is still made up of people, whether they have power and make decisions or not. It's made up of people, but in this case they didn't call the shots. If they don't make decisions, the nation itself as a country doesn't represent them. In this case too, it doesn't. And while that battle-flag to you may represent mundane heroism, it is no excuse for what their leadership stood for. "mudane heroism"? I'll ignore that...

You forget that The Confederacy was, in fact, a representative government. Now granted "representative" is a relative term since only white males could vote, but it was certainly not a monarchy, and leadership wasn't perminent.