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The Decline of Mutuality


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The Decline of Mutuality: MDP's going out of style

 

The political trends in Orbis have continually pushed the limits of acceptable politics that many migrants have brought from other worlds.

 

The widespread implementation of paperless foreign policies, the commonly accepted white-peace endings to wars, and even the relative lack of political ostracization that occurs when an alliance fails to uphold a treaty, among other things.

 

Despite personal interpretation or defense of a particular alliance's actions, we can clearly point out some recent examples of the third example. We can also clearly tie in some of the motivations behind these recent examples into Individualist thought.

 


The most recent, being The Light Federation, refusing to uphold their mutual defense pact with UPN.

 

The most profound (in my memory) being The Knights Radiant refusing to uphold their mutual defense pact with NPO.

 


While many people may frown upon these two groups refusing to honor a document with such strict wording, I postulate that the wording itself is the cause of discontent. In our world we have individual nations who form alliances in order to further certain Individual goals such as common defense. The alliances occasionally combine forces with each other in order to further Individual goals such as the neutralization of a mutual threat. This has resulted in treaties making their way into widespread use, many of which are worded to be permanently and mutually binding.

 

However, alliances by nature cannot maintain mutually binding agreements. The only way such a thing can be accomplished is by merging the actual alliances, otherwise their Individual goals will never permanently align. It is therefore correct to assume that mutual defense pacts are more a propaganda statement than a practical tool of politics. The two aforementioned examples clearly demonstrate that, outside of the slighted parties (NPO and UPN), most of our world no longer recognizes the propaganda/public shame value of the mutual pact.

 

Hopefully this last nail in the coffin of mutually binding pacts will push us into a new era of paperless politics or, at worst, optional-only pacts that better reflect how each alliance can only ever represent their own self-interest if they hope to thrive.

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