CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
An interesting one!
Say, am I wrong that people look down on Merchants? Because I think in hindsight the richer guys could be called Merchant Princes, except not as powerful and they don't tax people or implement laws
Different from the usual culture shock of encountering people who are advanced and live in a democratic society
"Enlightened Self-Interest" and trusting most people not to be crazy or evil or stupid to make up something close to a society
Wildling: "You stole our lands!!!"
Aristillite(they don't call themselves that in the books or anything really): "I thought these places were disputed territory and uninhabited?"
Wildling: "Well, you Southerners took the land past that Wall as theirs and made that Wall too!"
Aristillite: "Wait, I thought you guys had a thing about owning things by taking them by force, if you never succeeded in taking "The North" then how is it yours?"
Wildling: "UUUUHH!!!!"
*Attacks with a stone axe & gets shot*
Social Darwinism VS Enlightened Self-Interest+Pseudo-Objectivism
Which wins out?
And yeah, I kinda get sorta annoyed by Wildlings trying to act more moral or something, I mean they talk as if they were wronged when most of the time they're the attackers in their generations long conflict with the Northerners