Oh no, they broke our non-aggression pack, you know, that non-legal, non-binding document that we wrote on the Internet, and the only punishment was we slandered our e-honor ever so slightly. I love how we come up with imaginary contracts and think Google documents will somehow legally bind people to following them, if you would like you guys can borrow damug the next time you sign a NAP, and he'll bless it with his lawyer powers.
I really want to sign one of these NAP's now, I don't think we've been in an official Google document of non-aggression yet, who wants to help change that?
Well yeah.. but it doesn't matter that its fake an on the internet and not enforceable by some government. Even in real lifes, for real, there's no real overarching law governing the relations between sovereign nations, unless you count the UN, which has clearly failed in that task, real.
The point of making a super officials google document isn't that you now have an invincible shield that says you'll never be attacked, it's that if you do get attacked, your aggressor loses all credibility in terms of honoring their future contracts. If someone breaks a NAP on strat, you don't call the police, you fuckin' bitch about it on the forums. What the hell else are you supposed to do, if not publicize it so that people know that there are interweb consequences to their interweb actions. The hope is that by sealing a contract with the threat of a soiled reputation, it will be honoured.
CHAOS made a choice. They clearly violated a NAP, and so they get to face the consequent but justified bitching, as well as a stain on their reputation. Maybe they can wiggle their way out of a large credibility hit by claiming the primacy of an alliance over a NAP, but that's still a little shaky. This whole situation has precedent, if your ally attacks someone that you have a NAP with, you stand aside, neutral. Black Rose did it when all their BFFs attacked the NE.
Yeah, yeah, I know you fuckin' know this, but fuck you; you asked for it when you degraded
damug with your sarcasm. He and I have a forum mutual defense pact.