Lazarene Regional Guard Amendment (2020)

[Imaginary]

Roavin, thank you for your comments. You have more military experience than most here and it's nice to see you using it to advise us on this. ^^ You brought forward three specific things that I'd like to offer my thoughts on though.

1. This administration of Lazarus isn't meant to have a military

2. The current military was created for the NPO war, which was a bad reason

3. Those in Lazarus who would like to participate in r/d should join another region/org

Cormac mentioned when he was pushing for democratic reform (which has now been implemented) that many aspects of how the regional government was put together originally under Imki existed because people needed to calm down on some topics. Taking things like elections and a military out of the picture for a bit was helpful in order to avoid more controversy in those areas. I don't know if we're ready or not for a military that can reach out into broader r/d yet, but I firmly believe that, like elections, a fully functioning military IS something that can come in time and help improve the opportunities in our community.

Assuming the above, the NPO war seems irrelevant to our current discussion, except to show that the limited Guard that accompanied it did not lead to any great controversies in the region, implying that we were ready for that level of r/d involvement at least.

I don't like participating in multiple regions at a time. It splits my time and focus priorities while playing NS. I'm sure some could do this well, but I agree with Debussy on this one, for different reasons.

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I'm not particularly drawn towards the currently proposed legislation.