[MR] Comments on Proposed revision of Corpora IV.A.1.

[Vernon L. Willet, Jr.]

Logan wrote:
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> we are not living in the middle ages.  

Indeed, Your Grace, we are not.  In the Middle Ages, few made any real
attempt to exemplify Courtesy, outside of Literature.  Chivalry was also
a literary concept, rarely seen in real life.  The SCA is a lovely
fantasy, in which we (allegedly) strive to show ourselves Courteous,
Chivalrous (sp?) and Noble in deed and word.  At least, this was the
Pary Line when I joined.  I have noticed, of late, a certain retreat
from that position.  We seem to be becoming more period all the time. 
That is too bad.
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> to show that you can form, train, inspire, pay, whatever a group of fighters
> to somehow prove you are  a better leader is also asinine.  

This statement is an example of my previous point.  If you disagree with
Lord Lyon's position, that is your right.  And it is your right to say
so in a public forum.  But the ideal of Courtesy is not well served by
labelling opinions which differ from your own as "bearing strong
likeness to those of a donkey".  Royal peers are the example to which
the rest of us strive.  So too with the Chivalry, in particular.
Increasingly I find those people held up as role models to not fit my
idea of Exemplars of the Ideals of the Society.  This is probably my
failing.

Your Grace, it is not my intent to single you out for criticism.  I have
always enjoyed your reigns for their emphasis on fun as a goal.  It is
simply that I begin to despair for the role of Courtesy and the Knightly
Virtues when one such as yourself fall prey to the pervasive trend
toward self expression at the expense of Coureous Speech.  I, too, offer
the truth as I see it.  Political suicide seems to be my hobby.

I have the honor to be, In Service to My Dream,
Werhener