I was thinking.....

[Axeman]

I was thinking after playing a game involving ordering other real life players around as a commander, that I had realized that I had just come up with one of my oh so colorful and surreal analogies.

Almost everything political involved in civil law can be boiled down to a rudimentary root of one principle / struggle *whatever you want to call it*

Individual Initative / Small scale execution

vs

Centralized Command / Large scale organization

I know its such a shocker *sarcastic sigh here*, but then I got to think, on how many non-political things this applies to, like everything from military doctrines in wartime, to simple Real Time Strategy Games, to Ethical Delimas on the structure on Dogma of religious bodies.

It all melts down to one thing.

Its always the Individual vs the Mass. Maybe not individual as in person, but an individual could be a military squad doing what it thinks is best tactically like falling back to save lives, or a business that is against government organization / restrictions. ect.....


Just thought I would throw that out there.

[basics]

Axeman,

It's a bit like always swimming against the tide. Some get lucky, others, perhaps most, not so lucky, so I suppose very much part of life. I could say that the lucky ones are those prepared to go that bit extra, bend the rules, break whatever law is necessary, take risks, to achieve what is luck to us who for some reason won't do it.