[MR] 4th Peerage

[Mark Hunter]

Being a Peer gives you a general higher respect in the normal populace.  With it sometimes they are listened to more but the truth is if you go out there into the SCA community, and act with the respect, confidence, skill, and will power of a peer you will be given about the same weight of voice.  I have seen a couple non-belts enter the field and given the same respect as a peer on the field.  am I wrong?
 
This leads me to my 2 cents on this subject.  truly what power does a Peer have that the populace does not give them.  they give them this power because the said Peer stepped up with knowledge skill and will power to earn in his/her eyes the responsibility that people around them give him/her.  Acting fighting and holding that responsibility as a Peer is a behavior that I hope someday I will learn from my Knight and Peers.  But the truth is  To be a peer you must first act as such.  If they Make a 4Th Peer what power will it give a person other then what respect and power people will already give him/her by there behavior as acting like a Peer?
 
If I offend anyone with this I am sorry but I have always seen being a Peer is more a Behavior to learn then an award or Title to earn.
 
Lord Humfrey Lovett
Squire to Count Sinclair Hawkins
House Hawkins
Clan Ebonwoulfe
 


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Alan MacNeill <gormofberra at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alan MacNeill <gormofberra at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] 4th Peerage
To: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 12:57 PM

Like it or not...there are those who say that one must be a Peer to be a leader.

Consider the recent unpleantness....is it a Pan-populace petition?
No, it is a Pan-Peerage petition, with a "Oh, you're not a peer, fill
out this form and the BoD might care" option only put in by apparent
insistence by our Crowns (thank you for that btw).

Consider the current BoD...all members are Peers.  Looking at the list
of nominees...the vast majority...Peers.

Peerage has power.  To deny a group of people it because the activity
they do doesn't fit with the current peerages is incorrect.  Likewise,
to attempt to redefine one of the existing Peerages to encompass the
new activity is also incorrect.


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Duane Moore <poetamilitarus at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> There is a fallacy in your arguement. Do you honestly believe that someone
must be a Peer to be a leader? I strongly disagree, and worshipfully admire our
Provosts, for instance, that teach, serve, and lead by example. A title will
never dicate that love of the Society.
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