That’s how Halfling societies operate…If you wrong them, they know that direct confrontation won’t work in their favor. So they give nothing but upturned noses, closed doors, revoke hospitality, pull subtle pranks & rumors that cause embarrassment…And if worse comes to worse, a king would find that the Halfling population will simply just up & leave, quietly. Sooner or later, those who anger Halflings (& they are surprisingly tolerant for a whole race) begin to *wish* for a direct confrontation.
Protests and pranks accomplished nothing (much like in the real world). The minister didn’t care for one second if the halflings were upset; he is focused on more practical, tangible concerns. If they’d marched outside his house waving signs, all he had to do to make that "problem" go away is draw his curtains. Zero value, zero effect.
What they did was bring every product and service their community provides to an abrupt and screeching halt, making sure it was know who and why the reason was.
NOW the minister has real, tangible problems that he can’t abide continuing (or indeed, the amount of time before he would be removed from his position and replaced with someone who WOULDN’T offend all the halflings was ticking down quickly!)
You can’t change a government or a corporation’s mind just by waving signs while they are still making money; you have to hit them were they actually care: their wallets. You make the bad behavior dangerously UNPROFITABLE, and they’ll actually have to change their ways.
That is how real change happens.
That’s right. The real action that has the most far-reaching effect is Civil Disobedience. That hits the government where it hurts most, in the coffers. The pranks & rumors help to spread awareness of the problem to other demographics among the population & the movement can spread *without* being obvious exactly who is doing it. It’s hard to punish individuals that can’t be specifically identified.
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Really like the political intrigue in this one.
you never know what you have untill you lose it 😛
That will teach him to mess with something as important as love.
That’s how Halfling societies operate…If you wrong them, they know that direct confrontation won’t work in their favor. So they give nothing but upturned noses, closed doors, revoke hospitality, pull subtle pranks & rumors that cause embarrassment…And if worse comes to worse, a king would find that the Halfling population will simply just up & leave, quietly. Sooner or later, those who anger Halflings (& they are surprisingly tolerant for a whole race) begin to *wish* for a direct confrontation.
Which comic are you reading?
Protests and pranks accomplished nothing (much like in the real world). The minister didn’t care for one second if the halflings were upset; he is focused on more practical, tangible concerns. If they’d marched outside his house waving signs, all he had to do to make that "problem" go away is draw his curtains. Zero value, zero effect.
What they did was bring every product and service their community provides to an abrupt and screeching halt, making sure it was know who and why the reason was.
NOW the minister has real, tangible problems that he can’t abide continuing (or indeed, the amount of time before he would be removed from his position and replaced with someone who WOULDN’T offend all the halflings was ticking down quickly!)
You can’t change a government or a corporation’s mind just by waving signs while they are still making money; you have to hit them were they actually care: their wallets. You make the bad behavior dangerously UNPROFITABLE, and they’ll actually have to change their ways.
That is how real change happens.
That’s right. The real action that has the most far-reaching effect is Civil Disobedience. That hits the government where it hurts most, in the coffers. The pranks & rumors help to spread awareness of the problem to other demographics among the population & the movement can spread *without* being obvious exactly who is doing it. It’s hard to punish individuals that can’t be specifically identified.
what’s "paro general" in hobbit?
Nothing can get between true love…and connections…lol.