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killer shrike

Subj: Re: That's a slippery slope...(a nice editorial on the subject for all)
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 at 11:59:42 am EST (Viewed 388 times)
Reply Subj: Re: That's a slippery slope...(a nice editorial on the subject for all)
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 at 08:27:59 am EST



> I think you may have taken my original post a bit too seriously. \:\)

Maybe, but around here you never know what the source of these things is.


> > If irrelevance is the problem I guess I can see the point. Hatman is a leader, but in a much more abstract way than he used to be- he's more of an inspiration for the Lair Legion now. The plus side is he's a fixture in that community. The minus is he lacks the freedom to action that someone like the Silver Aegis does, and maybe the writer misses that simplicity.
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> I'd argue with all of that. Hatty's a leader in a tactical sense, not just an inspirational one.

But tactically he's not irreplaceable. Epitome or Yuki or CSFB! might use different strategies, but it's not like they can't get the job done. That would be like implying that Superman leaving the Legion of Super-Heroes would cause it to collapse because they don't have the power to work successfully anymore.

Inspirationally though, things are much different. The aforementioned three in the paragraph above would behave much differently, and would likely spread some divisiveness in the group. Epitome in command would likely cause CSFB! to leave and vice versa, Yuki may cause both of them and more to leave because of her lack of compromise, etc. Hatman is a leader who's pulling together people who would avoid working together normally.