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I never said there is absolutely nothing moral to be done about that situation. I also never said there shouldn't be anything immoral to be done about that either.

let's get the first thing out of the way, and i'm gonna hold you hand when i drill this into your brain, this is not something FOR piltover to do. sure they have the jurisdiction, but if you have been paying attention in season one, piltover is NOT FIT to handle the zaun situation. let's talk logistics for a second. assuming you can just safely assasinate every drug lord and chemsbaron, you'd have a humanitary crisis and a massive vaccumn of power on your hand, which - and i'm gonna repeat this again - piltover is not equiped to handle. you'd have a barrage of freshly unemployed impoverished citizens that you'll have to take care of, a shit ton of power-hungry opportunists eager to replace the old mobsters, oh and yeah, TONS OF SHIMMER that can be weaponized. it'll be an open season - which, again, piltover will be scared shit less of. do you think piltover ever cared to learn about how zaun functioned? do you think they made an effort? they didn't have to. they just need to get their factories up and running and collect their wealth. they didn't need to care. which is why, for any sort of punishment to matter, it cannot be piltover who enforced it.

BTW, THIS IS EXACTLY THE REASON WHY WE DON'T OUTRIGHT ASSASSINATE DICTATORS IN REAL LIFE.

so what do we fight authoritarianism with? democracy. duh.

so here's the moral thing piltover could do. first, they could upgrade citizenship of zaunites, give them more political power. second, give zaunites a chance at economic mobility - more zaunites working in piltover, more schools, more shops, more business, which in turn will give them a stabilized enough financial state to stay away from the factories. easier said then done and piltover will have to sacrifice a great chunk of it's economic priviledge - which is why this scenario will never be allowed to play out with the state of piltovian council bruh. third, when people are successfully lifted over the poverty line, that is when you go for the drug lords - or don't even bother, the people will find a way - if they are being oppressed by both the chemsbarons and piltover, but one help lift them out of the grip of the other, who do you think they would support? who do you think they would throw to the pyre?

now, is that an ideal ending in an ideal world? yes. is it hard? fuck yes. but the only immoral thing to do is NOT PUNISHING THE CHEMSBARONS. and before you unclutch your pearls and come at me, think about how your aggressive crack down on drug lords would play out in comparison to this. oh yeah you don't have to, i already told you, vaccumn of power, social unrest, class violence, all that good stuff. but now, because assasination is rarely ever that easy, piltover put their boots down harder on chemsbarons, chemsbarons will put their boots down harder on the already oppressed masses. and when you are on the ground looking up, every one above you is an enemy. you know what that would lead to? google the images of the french revolution, of the bolsheviks, and imagine how that would look on the streets of piltover.

so your choice really, crack down on drug lords and enact the "punishment" you so desire, or foster the growth of democratic sentiment in zaun. pick your poison.

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It is WILD that you say “selling drugs and engaging in gang turf war does not make you not a citizen” as if that changes the fact that they’re still CRIMES.

I mean, if your logic is that Zaun is technically part of Piltover and thus falls under Piltover’s jurisdiction… committing a CRIME under their jurisdiction means you can suffer consequences from your actions. No? It doesn’t MATTER if you’re a citizen or not. Being a citizen doesn’t give you free rein to do whatever you want! You have to obey laws!

If I’m a citizen of a city in America, and I do a crime, the police of that city are allowed to take away my rights as a citizen. That’s what being a citizen in a functional society MEANS!

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU WEIRD ASS MOTHER FUCKERS????

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