| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: State of emergency |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:26:44 +0000 |
edu>, Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU> writes
>Okay, now you set off my bells and whistles. Any time the Big 8 want to
>duke it out big enough to need to call out the guard is cause for major
>world-view changes and is probably getting into the realm of too hot to
>handle for this list. On the guard issue, there is a such thing that the
>creators of Shadowrun wrote into their worldview called corporate
>extraterritoriality meaning: if Fuchi and Aztech want to conduct carpet
>bombing on each other's arcologies, as long as they obey the law in
>Seattle (file legitimate flight plans, etc.), Seattle has no right to
>intervene.
Until the first bomb lands short, or the first SAM comes down in a
tenement building, or a shot-down strike aircraft hits a hospital with
tons of fuel and ordnance aboard...
At that point, it gets rather more tricky, and the UCAS has not only a
right but a duty to take firm action.
My personal take is that this would cause major problems between
corporations and the UCAS, and hence the Corporate Court would rather
ruthlessly act to prevent it from happening in the first place. See my
and Brian Angliss' debates on this subject in January last year for two
viewpoints on the situation :)
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
