[Round 3, Day 5] another brick in the wall [OPEN//CLASSROOM]

[utopiamods]

Characters: EVERYONE
Format: ACTION/PROSE/IAMBIC PENTAMETER/LIMERICK
This log is: open
Location: Classroom D7
Summary: It's politics class! Today we're having group discussions about the disadvantages of constitutional monarchy. Or what you're having for lunch, either one.
Warnings: to be added

[your teacher is sitting at the desk, marking your homework from the previous week. There aren't many sheets in front of her, mainly because very few students actually bothered to hand in any work. She doesn't seem entirely worried by this, and will only look up if someone makes a wide movement or voices get too raised.

The tables seat six apiece and are scattered around the room with enough space to walk between them easily. There are textbooks and notes on every table relevant to the debate, although the information tends to vary wildly on what world and timeline it's purportedly from.]

Comments

[myblueskies]

Romeo blinked up at Grenn and smiled, his smile held a little bit of confusion though. "Oh like the king? I knew that!" He said, not in an accusing way but a cheary way glad he had remembered something that doctor Casella had taught him. "Italy's like that! So is France!" He paused and frowned a moment.

"Wait isn't everywhere like that?" Everywhere in Europe anyways, "Is it like that in India? Why are there disadvantages? If you don't have a king who is gonna rule?"

[summerstars]

She had no idea when or where Romeo was from... Grenn shook her head slowly and traced the title letters on one of the books.

"Not everywhere is like that, no. But there are other ways to rule than having a king; a monarch is usually not chosen, but there's systems where the people choose the... 'ruler' instead," Grenn said, aware that a president or whatever wasn't exactly a ruler, but with Romeo's apparent frame of reference, she probably couldn't toss around 'head of state', 'president' or other such words.

"People like power. And if they're not decent, they'll abuse that power." Of course, even 'decent' people could abuse power, and make things miserable for others, but it was simpler to say it this way.

[myblueskies]

"Other ways to rule?" That sounded like something Alfredo would have said, he always spoke of things being different, things from the books he read. "So people chose who they want to rule? And it can be anyone?" That sounded like a strange system, because surely the king was chosen by God to rule? That's what the priest in church had said anyways. Romeo sighed.

"Oh you mean bad people like Napoleon?" Alfredo had taught him about Napoleon, he had had a lot of power and used it to invade different countries. "Well people just have to pick nice people to rule right?"

[summerstars]

This felt strangely like parts of the conversation she'd had with Sora. Shaking her head, Grenn tapped a finger against one of the books.

"Well, you could hope so. But it's not hard to pretend to be nice, and even those who may start out 'nice' can end up bad," Grenn said with a sigh and a shrug. She wasn't equipped to discuss politics and the state of society with idealists and (idealistic) children...

[myblueskies]

"Oh," Romeo frowned, he didn't like the sound of that. That people could pretend to be nice but were really not. Anyways everyone he had ever met had niceness in them somewhere. Even when they were cruel and mean there was goodness in them and it didn't take much to make them realise that. Even the god of death, even Luini, he had some niceness in him.

"Sometimes people are bad, and do bad things but everyone has niceness in them, sometimes it's just really deap down. So maybe we just have to make sure that rulers know that there is niceness inside them."

[summerstars]

Grenn felt something twitch, somewhere, but managed a smile and a nod, if slightly vauge. Others might have taken it upon them to try and educate both Romeo and Sora, but Grenn didn't feel she was the right person for that.

Better to keep quiet, since she wasn't sure she had the right words to explain.

"Ummm, yes, I'm sure," Grenn nodded with all the agreement she could muster, and wondered why the classes were so mixed, considering at least some of the children here would hardly have the correct frame of reference to use...

[myblueskies]

Romeo smiled and nodded, he was sure that as long as good people ruled then everything would be alright. "The king of Italy is nice anyways," he said with a smile. "Alfredo met him once."