Talk:Charles Pike/@comment-24670104-20160316171118/@comment-86.186.228.210-20160404010255

They could not do nothing but give him the pin. I mean, Arkadia is small and there are only hundreds of people. In such a small society, it would be difficult to lie about the results, plus we do not know how the exact elections are carried out, if it is by publicly casting a vote, or by, let's say, putting the hands up, or dividing into groups according to the candidate on some public gathering, it is hard to lie about results. Or was the system of voting described somewhere?

When it comes to Pike's ability to run, again it depends on laws, if Abby was able run before, it would be unfair just to change the rules in order to prevent the guy you hate from being elected. And why not let prisoners or former prisoners (especially political prisoners) run? They are still proper citizens, should have say in how a society is run, and if people wish him or her to be elected, why not? Don't forget that many important figures of history, most prominently civil activists were in prison at some point, would you agree with them being excluded from public life just because they did something illegal under then-laws and establishment?

And the Arkadians let him be elected is because they did not know about their new ally. Maybe most of the people in Arkadia were surprised or disgusted, just imagine you are one of those people. Even if I agreed with the joining of coalition, I would be pissed that there was no referendum on such important issue, and would agree with getting rid of such leader (this does not mean I would vote for Pike).

Btw. it scares me how many people here deny simple democratic principles, just because the guy they hate gets to rule. That is the same as saying that we should abolish democracy