Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150511012802/@comment-86.174.46.239-20150520210909

You are one of these lefty socialist types aren't you, I figured as much.

How the Imperium fights and runs its domain is not perfect and the diasporex or interex would have been good allies if not wiped out due to the corrupt touch of chaos during those meetings with the Lunar Woles/Sons Of Horus.

Imagine if it were your home WORLD, not town, city, continent that was faced with enslavement, death or consumption, would you like someone to stop you from been displaced, eaten, enslaved or just destroyed? That would probably be nice if someone stopped those nasty things happening to you. Scorched earth is really only a delay tactic to draw out a enemy before eventually taking it on in a weaker state, as per what the Russians used against the Nazis etc in WW2, but eventually they still need to be taken on. You can't always redirect and enemy and frankly it requires alot of territory to do so, which the IOM only have due to the grand crusade in the first place.

The IOM has worked alongside various races as needed to combat the threats posed against the IOM, sometimes they don't though as well. But given that the Eldar (for example) have lead the IOM astray before to save Eldar lives, then you can't always trust them. Many examples of the Eldar giving good advice/warning and not been heeded bit likewise plenty of them playing IOM as fools and shields for themselves.

The IG/PDFs can and do successfully fight off the Dark Eldar but they also fail at times too, so go figure. Do you want to be degraded, abused, raped, tortured, killed? No? who is going to stop them? Oh you might be able to run away, but they are fast, so when they catch you are you just going to give up?

Orks do go to where the fight is but as they also have a habit of taking the fight to others, they aren't exactly friendly all the times. Again, the orks want to feed you to their squig, use your favourite family member as a slave in their mines and kill your mates becasue they make nice patterns when they explode...who are you going to call to stop them? Just run away?

I don't really see what point you are trying to make but it's not done well and smacks of a person with a poor grasp of military tactics, a naivity over how to maintain a safe status quo or what happens when someone ones to taken that you have and you can't personally stop them.

I'm going to call you out - Do you agree or disagree with the presence of a military and Law enforcement organisation within a society?