To: "SMOF Net" (Recipients redacted)
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.fen)
Subj: Re: Callout To The Mad Assistants (and everyone else)
Date: 2015.07.22-0945UTC
I've read through properfeedingandcare.ftxt twice now. It's ambitious. It's daring. It's courageous. It's something that definitely needs to be presented to the Convention as a whole.
It's also selective. Being completely frank here, there are things that other Mads have invented that are far worse than anything that The Professor has created, but they were one-time-only inventions. This proposal says nothing about them; it only addresses the "chronic offenders." If we address a subset of the Mads, then they will - quite rightly - feel discriminated against. If you consult La Mariposa's testimony during the thionite trials after the Boskone War, you can read references to a Mad who went Boskonian because she felt discriminated against. We don't need to create even one more Boskonian Mad.
This means that, whatever rules we enact, we have to apply them equally to everyone - no more Convention clauses that apply only to a single person or a small group of people. Yes, I know that applying the rules as currently written to everyone would mean Stellvia would have to give up our ability to manufacture kaboomite, and put that knowledge in the big pool of "stuff the support pool looks after." I would rather see that than see another outlaw Mad.
As for the offer from Grover's Corners, I have the greatest respect for Ms. Avins and would be willing to trust the recommendations of any committee she chairs.
Noah Scott,
President, Stellvia Corporation
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.fen)
Subj: Re: Callout To The Mad Assistants (and everyone else)
Date: 2015.07.22-0945UTC
I've read through properfeedingandcare.ftxt twice now. It's ambitious. It's daring. It's courageous. It's something that definitely needs to be presented to the Convention as a whole.
It's also selective. Being completely frank here, there are things that other Mads have invented that are far worse than anything that The Professor has created, but they were one-time-only inventions. This proposal says nothing about them; it only addresses the "chronic offenders." If we address a subset of the Mads, then they will - quite rightly - feel discriminated against. If you consult La Mariposa's testimony during the thionite trials after the Boskone War, you can read references to a Mad who went Boskonian because she felt discriminated against. We don't need to create even one more Boskonian Mad.
This means that, whatever rules we enact, we have to apply them equally to everyone - no more Convention clauses that apply only to a single person or a small group of people. Yes, I know that applying the rules as currently written to everyone would mean Stellvia would have to give up our ability to manufacture kaboomite, and put that knowledge in the big pool of "stuff the support pool looks after." I would rather see that than see another outlaw Mad.
As for the offer from Grover's Corners, I have the greatest respect for Ms. Avins and would be willing to trust the recommendations of any committee she chairs.
Noah Scott,
President, Stellvia Corporation
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012