"I'm not good with rules, so I'd have an advisor who can sort all that shit out."
That detail would likely lead to your downfall.
"Anyone who breaks them will be punished a certain way or publicly executed, depending on the crime committed."
Even you?
"The only difference being that I'm the one that has ultimate power and control."
It's interesting that you oppose the world as it is, but support it if you believe yourself to be at the reigns. It makes you appear as if you only think in the short term, and it begs the question of if that same model applies to other areas.
by TurncoatThen the Justicars would come to take you away, starve you of food and water, and slay you in the Arena.
Obviously he'd have to weaken me first to fight me, lol. God forbid he'd allow me the strength to kick his weak ass all over the arena.
You underestimate the true power of propaganda.
And you assume too much.
I see things for what they are. Any man who needs to weaken another before a fight is a weak man himself.
He's plotting a path of guile, not power, even if the endgame goal itself is power achieved through example. His methods pose less risk with a promise of greater gains.
It's not excuses, it's a difference in tactics and aspirations. He's going for propaganda and writing his own history book entries.
"Call it what you want. If I lived in his community and I found out he was doing that, he'd be a coward in my eyes and I know there are a lot of other people who would agree with me."
Then the Justicars would come to take you away, starve you of food and water, and slay you in the Arena.
"A lot of people would lose respect for him, if they even had any for him to begin with."
You underestimate the true power of propaganda.
"Obviously he'd have to weaken me first to fight me, lol. God forbid he'd allow me the strength to kick his weak ass all over the arena."
He'd still win, and in the end that's all that'd matter. Weakening you means little in the grand scheme of that sort of model, it won't stop his society from advancing within the pre-designed projections.
The obvious answer is to try to have the Justicars become suspicious of their fights being rigged. Any who are honor driven would become weak links in the chain of command, especially if the suspicion had them stumble upon proof. With the angle of combining faith and ego however, it'd need to be fairly convincing.
"I see things for what they are. Any man who needs to weaken another before a fight is a weak man himself."
The ends justify the means, and strength in lieu of all else is an unrealistic path in the name of advancing yourself.
Most people in power play unfairly for a reason.