Whereas Allasaria's loveliness and empathy are fantastic to behold. I have merely one qualm to raise, she herself defines the atrocity as something intolerable. She concedes that it is nothing but a moral descriptor. In this regard, she is correct. An atrocity is not merely defined by scale: extermination of disease, executions of bandits and bloody insurrections are not called atrocities, yet the brutal murder of a child is. It is about the pain inflicted to the population's morality as a whole, the subject is irrelevant: case-in-point: A death by Olephia is instant and painless, yet we have a new atrocity every time my sister opens her mouth.
Allasaria's definition is correct. An atrocity is intolerable. Populations simply will not stand for them. However whereas her foundation is correct, her conclusion is wrong. There is another way to prevent atrocities:
Raise the population's pain tolerance.
Excerpt from 'Rulership', written by Malam, Goddess of Hatred.
