What are these plentiful and generous offerings? "I'll help you relocate somewhere else"? How is it generous to take all the land and "help" someone else's relocation? What would this "help" entail, exactly? What meaningful assistance can be given from someone busy claiming an entire continent in such a huge endeavour as relocating an entire race?
I stated plainly that he has offered to help her relocate, provide protection, and even pay gold in compensation. What has she offered? Precisely nothing.
This land clearly means more than mere money or services can provide. It's obviously not about wealth or power. It's about having a home.
Yes, even uKulwa's followers live there. It is their home as well. How are they to be compensated for
their loss of home?
How can it ever be generous to take someone's home when nowhere else can ever be a true home?
Yet, you expect uKulwa's followers to give up their rightful home in favor of O-gon-cho? If we are talking generosity, where is the generosity in that?
It is not necessary to negotiate when your offer is already reasonable, and your opponent's is not. The reason uKulwa has to offer so many concessions is because he knows his original intent is so absurd as to be completely impalatable. He hopes to lessen the foul taste to bearable levels with a sugar coating added hastily afterwards.
So, you are saying that it is
not necessary for O-gon-cho to negotiate?????
**heavy sarcasm**
Gee, I didn't realize that she was above such things and that she can take whatever she wants.
That being the case, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. uKulwa then, can do the same since O-gon-cho holds no authority over him.
There was no offer from O-gon-cho so how can it be reasonable? She said "I want these lands and you can have the rest." uKulwa is not making absurd concessions - he is trying to avoid war. Hence, he demostrates that he is willing to
negotiate for what he wants. She, on the other hand, is not. No concessions were offered on uKulwa's loss of land. No tears for his followers lost homes.
There is nothing reasonable or generous about the proposals uKulwa makes. They are just slightly better than the original ones.
And yet, he still makes them. Where are O-gon-cho's proposals? She has admitted to me personally that she is stubborn and inflexible.
Amplarx, you are operating on the assumption that the land belongs to O-gon-cho moreso than it belongs to uKulwa and I simply do not see that as being the case.
If both have an equal claim to the lands - as it appears that both do - then they must negotiate for them or fight over them. uKulwa has negotiated in an attempt to keep the peace. O-gon-cho has not, preferring instead to be stubborn and thus forcing uKulwa's hand into war.
The comical thing about all of this is that she is calling it "defense." In actuality, it is aggression on her part. Instead of keeping the peace, she chooses to be stubborn against a god who could easily destroy her. She is taking the stance of "
victim" instead of taking a proactive role in keeping peace on Imray. She has tweaked uKulwa's nose and now she wants to act like a damsel in distress - like the one wronged.
Gentlemen, take it from another woman: this victimhood of O-gon-cho's is just an act and she is only doing it because she knows you will come to her aid.
This is not the smartest move on her part.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. There is no fear in love; for perfect love cast out fear.