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If it got good ratings, shouldn\'t that disqualify it automatically? Also, it got placed \'\'iinbetween\'\' an example and a reply to that example, which isn\'t okay. Also, it didn\'t get turned into a link, showing that that person didn\'t even preview it.
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If it got good ratings, shouldn\\\'t that disqualify it automatically? Also, it got placed \\\'\\\'inbetween\\\'\\\' an example and a reply to that example, which isn\\\'t okay. Also, it didn\\\'t get turned into a link, showing that that person didn\\\'t even preview it.
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If it got good ratings, shouldn\'t that disqualify it automatically? Also, it got placed \'\'iinbetween\'\' an example and a reply to that example, which isn\'t okay.
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If it got good ratings, shouldn\\\'t that disqualify it automatically? Also, it got placed \\\'\\\'iinbetween\\\'\\\' an example and a reply to that example, which isn\\\'t okay. Also, it didn\\\'t get turned into a link, showing that that person didn\\\'t even preview it.
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Betans fill the role of being the \\\"most advanced\\\" society in the \\\'verse. That goes for their social mores, and all of their technology, from medicine to weapons. In \\\'Ethan of Athos\\\' it\\\'s implied that Betan medicine pretty much sets the standard for Galactic medical research (and they won\\\'t try to swindle you like Jackson\\\'s Whole), so they\\\'re merchants of life as well, not just death.
However, Beta is still shown to be a flawed, imperfect society, not an utopia, so it\\\'s not at all beyond them to be hypocrites, as well. It\\\'d be fully in-character for Betans as a whole to look down on Barrayar for violence while also dealing weapons on the side.
As for the claim that Barrayarans at least \\\'risk their own lives when they make mayhem,\\\' that\\\'s clearly not entirely true. Heck, the plot to half the books wouldn\\\'t exist if Barrayar didn\\\'t have a fondness for secretly employing mercenaries (recruited from a wide range of worlds) to make mayhem that can\\\'t be traced back to them. Barrayarans (like Klingons in the Star Trek \\\'verse) talk about honour a lot, right up until the point when they find it useful to stab someone in the back. :P
However, Beta is still shown to be a flawed, imperfect society, not an utopia, so it\\\'s not at all beyond them to be hypocrites, as well. It\\\'d be fully in-character for Betans as a whole to look down on Barrayar for violence while also dealing weapons on the side.
As for the claim that Barrayarans at least \\\'risk their own lives when they make mayhem,\\\' that\\\'s clearly not entirely true. Heck, the plot to half the books wouldn\\\'t exist if Barrayar didn\\\'t have a fondness for secretly employing mercenaries (recruited from a wide range of worlds) to make mayhem that can\\\'t be traced back to them. Barrayarans (like Klingons in the Star Trek \\\'verse) talk about honour a lot, right up until the point when they find it useful to stab someone in the back. :P
